🚀 go-pugleaf

From Tom Christiansens list of future gawk features already in Perl,
it sounds like gawk2perl5 should be very easy to write. 

I think the reason gawk has not been abandoned is lack of knowledge
of the state of Perl. There is the balance between getting work done
and spending time on keeping on top of new methods. Tom Christiansen
(a perl expert) just now found out how little gawk had to offer 
(compared to latest Perl), so many 'gawk-experts' may still not have 
realized it. 

It should be discussed more, so converts wont say, one by one, 'argh
why didnt I shift earlier' (I am one myself). It shouldnt be difficult
to update awk2perl to gawk2perl, to ease the pain of change. 

How about posting *widely* the question "what will gawk be able to do
that Perl cannot do now?". That will be interesting for gawk people
certainly, but maybe there are a couple of ideas that would improve 
Perl further.

                                               Niels Larsen

email  niels@darwin.life.uiuc.edu