On 23/03/2021 22.22, Paul Edwards wrote:
> "long long" is not C90. I don't have support for that. The
> "i370" target of GCC 3.2.3 doesn't have DI instructions
> working. Just 32 bits. Everything is 32 bits.
Which version of Python are you using as baseline? CPython requires C99
since 3.6,
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Cameron,
I agree with you. I first encountered AWK in 1982 when I went to work for
Bell Labs.
I have not had any reason to use AWK since before the year 2000 so I was not
sure that unused variables were initialized to zero. The code seemed to
assume that. I have learned quite a few languages sinc
On 23/03/2021 14:40, Avi Gross via Python-list wrote:
> $1 == 113 {
> if (x || y || z)
> print "More than one type $8 atom.";
> else {
> x = $2; y = $3; z = $4;
> istep++;
> }
> }
>
> I am a tod concerned as to where any of the variables x, y or z have been
> d
Alan,
Back when various UNIX (later also included in other Operating environments
like Linux and the Mac OS and even Microsoft) utilities came along, the
paradigm was a bit different and some kinds of tasks were seen as being done
with a pipeline of often small and focused utilities. You mentioned
On Wednesday, March 24, 2021 at 11:07:48 PM UTC+11, Christian Heimes wrote:
> > "long long" is not C90. I don't have support for that. The
> > "i370" target of GCC 3.2.3 doesn't have DI instructions
> > working. Just 32 bits. Everything is 32 bits.
> Which version of Python are you using as bas
On 24/03/2021 16:00, Avi Gross via Python-list wrote:
> But I wonder how much languages like AWK are still used to make new programs
> as compared to a time they were really useful.
True. I first discovered awk from a Byte article around 1988/9
and it became my goto tool for text munching right u
On 24Mar2021 12:00, Avi Gross wrote:
>But I wonder how much languages like AWK are still used to make new
>programs
>as compared to a time they were really useful.
You mentioned in an adjacent post that you've not used AWK since 2000.
By contrast, I still use it regularly.
It's great for proo
Just to be clear, Cameron, I retired very early and thus have had no reason
to use AWK in a work situation and for a while was not using UNIX-based
machines. I have no doubt I would have continued using WK as one part of my
toolkit for years albeit less often as I found other tools better for some
