Jaap Akkerhuis wrote: quote of Aho from an interview --- "We [Aho and Kernighan] had created a grammatical specification for AWK but hadn't yet created the full run-time environment. Weinberger came along and said 'hey, this looks like a language I could use myself', and within a week he created a working run time for AWK." see http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/216844/a-z_programming_languages_aw…