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This 35-year gap is a great story to tell your editor whenever they ask "so how's that second edition coming along...?"
by adonovan 3y ago
This 35-year gap is a great story to tell your editor whenever they ask "so how's that second edition coming along...?"
- kazinator 3y agoThe original authors have done next to nothing to improve Awk in those years; it's embarrassing to be writing another book on a subject that they have not advanced. Awk could use improvement in numerous areas. Oh, for instance, you can pass associative arrays into functions, but not return them. Functions that filter array to array have to take an output array parameter. Using extra parameters as the only way to get local variables is also a smell. a[i] syntax cannot index into strings, what the hell?
- chris_wot 3y agoJust for contex, Aho is 82, Weinberger is 81 and Kerrighan is dead.
- ksherlock 3y agoBrian Kernighan is alive.
- chris_wot 3y agoI apologise for my error! And I am very happy he is alive.
- layer8 3y agoAnd 82, just to complete the data.
- banku_brougham 3y agoI just wanna say i have love for the while crew and jumped when i saw that about BK. thanks for posting fast
- usr1106 3y agoHe gave a keynote at what I believe was the last Linuxconf Australia. Maybe 2 years ago or already 3? Of course he could have died since, but as others noted, he hasn't.
- ksherlock 3y agoCVS support (--csv) was added last year (to the one true awk and gnu awk)
- EasyMark 3y agoGRRM should probably use that as something to refer to as people pointing to him completing "the damn book"