[TUHS] Re {TUHS} Synchronous vs Asynchronous IO in Unix

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Sat Sep 26 22:09:23 AEST 2015


On Fri, 25 Sep 2015, Larry McVoy wrote:

> P.S.  We're not crazy, we implemented a C like language that compiles 
> down to tcl byte codes so we don't have to deal with tcl very much.  
> Here's what that looks like, this is a little script that I use like
> 
> tail -f access.log | awk { print $1, $7 } | bk tclsh dns.l
> 
> It's like C with some perl goodness thrown in:

Dang it; you're making me learn a new language!

I used to joke that I've used as many languages as I am old; I turn 63 
next month, so you've just added one...

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