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tchrist@mox.Perl.com (Tom Christiansen) writes:
>[Re: gawk]
>Let me preface this with stating that I entirely agree that the world
>needed a freely redistributable version of awk that was a proper superset
>of everything in the nawk book.  But beyond that, this is all just feeping
>creaturism with a mind of its own.  Why did you have to keep adding more
>bells and whistles?  Now people are writing programs in the "gawk"
>language.  We didn't need a different dialect.  There should have been one
>awk: in these days, I guess that would be the POSIX awk.

I agree.  And your comments are generally right on.  But one of them
is silly:

>    For 2.16
>    ========
>    x	Move to autoconf-based configure system.
>
>Perl does this (although it uses its metaconfig's Configure)

So gawk shouldn't be portable and easy to install, and shouldn't install
in the standard GNU way, because Perl already does this?

(BTW, I was stunned and amused by Larry Wall's Configure ten years ago,
but now I find the chatty dialogs overly verbose and cute.  The
autoconf-generated scripts have definite advantages).

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