Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 00:07:23 -0500 From: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com> To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@asme.org> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No nawk ?? (was Re: Import of tcsh into src/contrib/, replacing src/usr.bin/csh) Message-ID: <20000407000723.M80578@prism.flugsvamp.com> In-Reply-To: <38ED6AED.7A4E39D0@asme.org> References: <20000406134916.A23265@dragon.nuxi.com> <38ED6AED.7A4E39D0@asme.org>
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On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 11:58:21PM -0500, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > It seems like the tendency is turning in favor of switching to tcsh... > > I'm gonna regret this but ...while people are in this discussion may I > bring again the nawk vs gawk discussion? > > nawk has it's roots in the real UNIX, is under a liberal license, is > maintained by one of the guys that invented UNIX, and is not as bloated > and buggy as gawk. > > I understand it has less features than gawk, but if OpenBSD could live > without those I don't see why we can't. Go for it. While I'm on the subject, I vote for getting rid of csh and replacing it with tcsh as well. -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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