Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 15:03:10 +0200 From: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@nitro.dk> To: Paul Robinson <paul@iconoplex.co.uk> Cc: FreeBSD Chat <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: RMS says: "Use BSD, for goodness sake!" Message-ID: <20030626130310.GC763@nitro.dk> In-Reply-To: <20030626124601.GB57378@iconoplex.co.uk> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20030625214311.00e5e240@localhost> <20030626010357.J508@hub.org> <20030626110336.GW34365@iconoplex.co.uk> <20030626113553.GA53078@packet.org.uk> <20030626115133.GA57378@iconoplex.co.uk> <20030626122023.GB763@nitro.dk> <20030626124601.GB57378@iconoplex.co.uk>
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--0vzXIDBeUiKkjNJl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2003.06.26 13:46:01 +0100, Paul Robinson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 02:20:27PM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: >=20 > > Actually there is. awk is a part of IEEE Std 1003.1, so if we want > > FreeBSD to be, or at least as much as possible, a real UNIX it can't be > > removed. It is also used quite a bit in the build system, espcially > > since perl was removed. >=20 > Ah. That's that then. Who the hell came up with that idea? Sombody at IEEE I would guess :). > Anyway, at the moment the one there is actually gawk. Are there no other= =20 > implementations knocking around? There must be if it's in the standard. Actually I just noticed that awk in CURRENT is contrib/one-true-awk which, as far as I can tell, has a BSD/MIT style license. > Incidentally, is it a stated goal of the project to conform to IEEE Std= =20 > 1003.1?=20 I have not seen an official statement about this, but there do exists the FreeBSD C99/POSIX project : 'The FreeBSD C99 & POSIX Conformance Project aims to implement all requirements of the ISO 9899:1999 (C99) and IEEE 1003.1-2001 (POSIX) standards' http://www.freebsd.org/projects/c99/index.html . --=20 Simon L. Nielsen --0vzXIDBeUiKkjNJl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE++u8O8kocFXgPTRwRAorbAKC6nMstMBpczwmxouOzE9PwOZ6d1QCgyQTM xc7XehjsQDLAwQB2ITmeHqo= =8Xxn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --0vzXIDBeUiKkjNJl--
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