[TUHS] 3 essays on the ujnix legacy

[Steffen Nurpmeso via TUHS]

Arnold Robbins via TUHS wrote in
 <202511021551.5A2FphUD012218 at freefriends.org>:
 |Hauke Fath <hauke at Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE> wrote:
 |> On Sun, 02 Nov 2025 00:25:16 -0600, Arnold Robbins via TUHS wrote:
 |>> I never got a job doing Free Software, even though I tried a time
 |>> or two. Maybe once or twice (in 38 years!) someone paid me to do \
 |>> something
 |>> on gawk for them.  't'would have been nice to have made a living
 |>> with this passion.
 |>
 |> From somebody who finds himself increasingly gravitating to awk in
 |> daily work the more he is getting familiar with its ins and outs --
 |> thank you for your work.

I concur; also in hindsight that you put lots of effort in "the
one, true implementation of AWK" (and, not at last, at minimum,
given your "38 years", and despite who it was who "did it", you
know, .. helping out in the "one and true" implementation).

 |You're welcome!
 |
 |> <https://xkcd.com/2347/> applies, I guess.
 |
 |That's the cartoon I first mentioned. Very applicable to this discussion.

You may find it funny that his address resides at the foot of
a hill called "Frankenstein", a magnet at a certain day for the
lots of american soldiers who were stationed here: buses as far as
could be seen.
Regarding the myriads of little modules or crates or however they
are called, of the modern Unix software world, worth mentioning
i thought.

 |Arnold
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--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)