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Brian Kernighan recently told me that "Al and Peter and I" (that is, A, W, and K) are working on a second edition of the book "The AWK Programming Language". Th
by benhoyt 4y ago
Brian Kernighan recently told me that "Al and Peter and I" (that is, A, W, and K) are working on a second edition of the book "The AWK Programming Language". The first edition is excellent (it inspired me to write an AWK interpreter in Go). Anyway, I'm really looking forward to seeing what the second edition looks like. I think it'll help renew interest in AWK in general, and no doubt bring some of the examples up to date (though the book has aged very well!).
- marttt 4y agoThis is incredible news, thanks for sharing. I would never have guessed that, really. I wonder what's their motivation (why now?). The AWK book was one of the fundamental books I used to teach myself some coding. The precision of the language is remarkable; I wonder how much will be different in the new edition.
- asicsp 4y agoAlso, Unicode support being added to onetrueawk: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32534173 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32534173
- alex_muscar 4y agoGlad to hear that. Brian Kernighan said that he was thinking of updating the AWK book on numberphile last year. Looking forward to it as well :)
- sargstuff 4y agoAny links to posts about Kernighan's take on gagh[1]? [1] https://www.startrek.com/database_article/gagh https://www.startrek.com/database_article/gagh