[TUHS] BWK on possible alternative programming languages

Rich Salz rich.salz at gmail.com
Mon Mar 10 05:28:05 AEST 2025


On Sun, Mar 9, 2025 at 1:21 PM Ralph Corderoy <ralph at inputplus.co.uk> wrote:

> Though AWK isn't named as BWK's earlier prototype, a --BWK, but after
> AWK's authors, Aho, Weinberger, and Kernighan, who also wrote the book
> ‘The AWK Programming Language’.


Yes, I know that. I was commenting on the similarity between the initials
of one, and the acronym of the three authors and that I never noticed that
before.
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