AWK, a software platform that was first introduced in 1977 has finally received a long-awaited update, almost half a century since its inception.
What makes this launch even more impressive? It’s the work and vision of Brian Kernighan (80-year-old Canadian computer scientist), who is part the team behind the software acronym (AWK, Alfred Aho Peter Weinberger, Brian Kernighan).
AWK, a programming language for parsing text files, is required to ensure POSIX compliance. It first appeared in UNIX 7 in 1979. This version was credited as the last version UNIX created at Bell Labs before being marketed by AT&T. Other operating systems that are POSIX-certified include VxWorks and z/OS.
AWK Update
In GitHub entry(Opens in a new window)Kernighan writes an update about the topic “Add BWK’s email” He says:
“Finally, after the academic treadmill had slowed, I was able to get back to Unicode in awk.”
It works “mostly”, he writes. “Through a combination of using UTF-8 internally for functions such as length,” he wrote.(), and converting from utf32 to regular expressions.”
Kernighan was concerned that the update had found a bug in realloc. Kernighan suspects it could be much more. Kernighan wrote that a “reasonable amount of testing” had been done. However, he stated that “it is evident that more testing is required”.
Comments in the thread highlight the importance of the update, and include one-liners like “wow” and “respect.”
log(Opens in a new window)According to reports, the code was changed in 2022. However, it has only been discovered by a larger audience through a recent interview with Kernighan.
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