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>>>>> "Joe" == Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.com> writes:

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

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

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

The comment was merely in line with the rest.  Perl does this.  That's
all he's saying (I'm reading his mind here, of course).  He's not
saying that gawk *shouldn't* do that, but rather that Perl *already*
does.

By the way, a2p (awk to perl) is really gawk-2-perl as well, from what
I've been told.  Larry is trying to keep a2p big enough to surround
old-awk, new-awk, and gnu-awk.  If it doesn't, I'm sure he'd like to
hear about it.

echo 'END { print "Just another Perl hacker," }' | a2p | perl
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