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

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From: Michael Shields
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 00:00

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In article <3n3j81$600@csnews.cs.colorado.edu>,
Tom Christiansen  <tchrist@mox.perl.com> wrote:
> It seems like a stupid and needless waste of time and energy to turn
> awk into perl.  Start over.  Leave awk as awk.  If you want perl, use it.
> But don't put it all into your own special perlian awk dialect.

The Fundamental Principles of Language Design:
    1. Borrow as much as you can from existing languages.
    2. Resist all attempts to turn your language into an existing language.

                                                                   --Larry Wall
-- 
Shields.

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From: shields@tembel.org (Michael Shields)
Subject: Re: Gawk v24.7: Why Bother???
Date: 1995/04/20
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