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The AWK Programming Language was published in 1988, and indicates: "Aside from these limitations, however, awk should be useful in any environment; in particu
by chasil 3y ago
The AWK Programming Language was published in 1988, and indicates:
"Aside from these
limitations, however, awk should be useful in any environment; in particular, it
runs on MS-DOS. Further information is available from Addison-Wesley."
It likely was not easy to find, and I hadn't heard of it until 1990.
- johannes1234321 3y agoIn a pre Internet time a lot harder to learn about, fetch and learn than QBAsic, which was saprt of DOS and had a quite good online help system. Many alternatives existed, but non that were so approachable on DOS (and many other systems in their variant)
- kstrauser 3y agoThere's zero chance I personally would have been capable of building that same software in Awk, even if I knew of it, and even if I knew how to get it onto that non-networked computer that didn't have any removable media in common with what I had at home.