Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 15:59:46 +0200 (CEST) From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GNU Awk replacement Message-ID: <m0zVFqc-000WyOC@mips.rhein-neckar.de> In-Reply-To: <19981018215440.A25652@nuxi.com>
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In article <19981018215440.A25652@nuxi.com>, David O'Brien <obrien@NUXI.com> wrote: > What do people think about replacing GNU awk in the base system with the > One True Awk(tm) by bwk? Because it doesn't conform to POSIX, and like other UNIX(TM) code from that era probably has undocumented fixed-size array limitations? What strikes me as a bit bizarre is that FreeBSD uses gawk whereas Debian GNU/Linux(!) uses mawk. mawk is less bloated, faster, and also POSIX compliant. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de See another pointless homepage at <URL:http://home.pages.de/~naddy/>. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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