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The "A" in awk has gotten a special award

by perlfan (Vicar)
on Apr 01, 2021 at 00:04 UTC ( [id://11130650]=perlnews: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

Well, and that Ullman fella, too.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/31/technology/turing-award-aho-ullman.html

Perl related? I suggest it is so. I am sure some of you have the old Dragon book at arms length, even if it's propping up one of your 3 monitors. :)

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Re: The "A" in awk has gotten a special award
by LanX (Saint) on Apr 01, 2021 at 00:27 UTC
    So awk comes from Aho, Weinberger, Kernighan and not from awk-ward???

    Man, here you learn astonishing things every day ...

    Cheers Rolf
    (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
    Wikisyntax for the Monastery

    PS: SCNR ;-)

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