From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 19 07:33:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA10905 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 07:33:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (news-ma.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA10897 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 07:33:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de) Received: from mips.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@localhost) by news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with bsmtp id QAA07324 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 16:32:52 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de) Received: by mips.rhein-neckar.de id m0zVFqc-000WyOC (Debian Smail-3.2.0.101 1997-Dec-17 #2); Mon, 19 Oct 1998 15:59:46 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: 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 In-Reply-To: <19981018215440.A25652@nuxi.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <19981018215440.A25652@nuxi.com>, David O'Brien 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 . To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message