Re: Gawk v24.7: Why Bother???

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From: Andrew M. Langmead
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 00:00

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xmsb@shadow.borland.com (the MOST SIGNIFICANT bit) writes:

>urlichs@smurf.noris.de (Matthias Urlichs) writes:


>>NB: (THis is a semi-serious question) Is there anything at all which gawk
>>    can do better than Perl5?


>    (presumably) interpret awk code.

With the a2p (awk to perl) translator included with the perl
distribution, it may not even have that.

-- 
Andrew Langmead

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From: aml@world.std.com (Andrew M. Langmead)
Subject: Re: Gawk v24.7: Why Bother???
Date: 1995/04/24
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