9 Mar
2025
9 Mar
'25
5:21 p.m.
Hi Rich,
Though AWK isn't named as BWK's earlier prototype, a --BWK, but after
AWK's authors, Aho, Weinberger, and Kernighan, who also wrote the book
‘The AWK Programming Language’.
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Cheers, Ralph.
I asked BWK
...
I can't believe that after nearly 40 years I only just now saw the
similarity between BWK and awk.