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I've got the source code to both the book (in English and French) as well as awk. How? I sent email to bwk that we were trying extend awk to be sort of thread
by luckydude 10y ago
I've got the source code to both the book (in English and French) as well as awk. How? I sent email to bwk that we were trying extend awk to be sort of threaded (think awk scripts as first class so you have awk foo { } awk bar { } and you could do foo | bar). We called it bawk, BitMover's awk.
Anyhow, I asked Brian if we could base it off the one true awk and he tarred up ~bwk/awk and sent it to me.
I love that guy, the culture of the Bell Labs people and the people that worked with them is great.
I've stolen a bunch of awk ideas over the years. BitKeeper (first DSCM) has a programming "language" for digging info out of the repository. For example, this:
http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/bkdocs/dspec-changes-json-v.txt http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/bkdocs/dspec-changes-json-v.txt
prints out the repo history as a json stream. One of my guys said that it couldn't be done, heh, it could be :)
Everyone should learn some awk, it's so handy.