[TUHS] The AWK Programming Language, 2nd Ed.: What's new?

[Dan Cross]

On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 5:09 AM KenUnix <ken.unix.guy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes. I normally keep quiet but what does transgender flags have to do with AWK or Unix??

Several years ago, on this list, someone wrote a lengthy post about
women in software. It was not complimentary; the person was some kind
of "Men's Rights" activist. I stayed quiet at the time, and I regret
that; I'm not going to stay quiet now.

To directly answer your question: Mary Ann is an important figure in
the history of Unix. Mary Ann is transgender. Mary Ann has written a
book about her pioneering experience as a transgender woman in
corporate America at a time when that was rare (or, rather, not openly
discussed). Mary Ann's .sig contains information about her book. That
appears to be what you are responding to: her .sig; not the content of
her message, just the signature.

> Let's at least stay with what the purpose of this group is.

Indeed. Let's. It's not spoon-fooding tech support to people who can't
be bothered to figure it out for themselves, or do even a modicum of
work researching things on their own. Nor is it writing transphobic
non-sequiturs in response to .sigs. You didn't need to respond, at
all: you could have just moved on. But you chose not to.

Perhaps you should go elsewhere.

        - Dan C.


> On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 11:54 PM <arnold at skeeve.com> wrote:
>>
>> This is getting off-topic, folks...
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Arnold
>>
>> Ajay Shah <ajayshah at mayin.org> wrote:
>>
>> > On Fri, 15 Sept 2023 at 07:10, Mary Ann Horton <mah at mhorton.net> wrote:
>> >
>> > > Which Git repo?  The CSV code is a game changer for awk, otherwise I need
>> > > a hokey python script.
>> > >
>> > Me too!
>> >
>> > > Is it being merged into the Gnu awk that will wind up in Red Hat awk?
>> > > Please please?
>> > >
>> > Debian is an important distribution in this regard, which may go into many
>> > other distros like Ubuntu. I just looked in Debian stable --
>> >
>> > $ apt-cache show original-awk
>> > Package: original-awk
>> > Version: 2022-09-12-1
>> > Installed-Size: 186
>> > Maintainer: Santiago Vila <sanvila at debian.org>
>> > Architecture: amd64
>> > Provides: awk
>> > Pre-Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34)
>> > Description-en: The original awk described in "The AWK Programming Language"
>> >  This is the version of awk described in "The AWK Programming Language",
>> >  by Al Aho, Brian Kernighan, and Peter Weinberger
>> >  (Addison-Wesley, 1988, ISBN 0-201-07981-X).
>> > Description-md5: 7a3c565b081bc0f03d9e79a6fd87fe27
>> > Multi-Arch: foreign
>> > Homepage: https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk
>> > Tag: devel::interpreter, implemented-in::c, interface::commandline,
>> >  role::program, scope::utility, use::filtering, use::scanning,
>> >  works-with::text
>> > Section: interpreters
>> > Priority: optional
>> > Filename: pool/main/o/original-awk/original-awk_2022-09-12-1_amd64.deb
>> > Size: 86548
>> > MD5sum: f5a128040710433c276d866038703051
>> > SHA256: f1835f1e5aca2f69e0b997b285b33b45aaa1abf4071edfd7481149076ca80a63
>> >
>> > The key URLs are
>> >   https://packages.debian.org/sid/original-awk
>> >   https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk
>> >   sanvila at debian.org
>> >
>> > --
>> > Ajay Shah
>> > ajayshah at mayin.org
>> > http://www.mayin.org/ajayshah
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