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From: arnold@audiofax.com (Arnold Robbins)
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Subject: Re: The Official Word on Citations in FSF Works
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Date: 19 Jul 90 13:52:52 GMT
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SIGH.  The Topic That Just Won't Die.  I don't think I'm going to do
any more following up on this topic after this.

>> = article <8015@ncar.ucar.edu> thor@stout.atd.ucar.edu (Rich Neitzel)
> = article <3030@skye.ed.ac.uk> jeff@aiai.UUCP (Jeff Dalton)

>>Now I find it hard it to believe that GAWK was truely reverse-
>>engineered in "clean-room" fashion. 
>Who said it was?  Maybe they talked to the designers.
>
>>Most likely the developers have read said book in order to further
>>their understanding of awk. 
>Most likely isn't enough.

Just to set the record straight.  All of the following were used during
the production of the current versions of both the gawk program and the
gawk manual:

	+ "The AWK Programming Language", by Aho, Kernighan, and Weinberger.

	+ The binary of the System V Release 3.1 program 'nawk'.

	+ Lots of e-mail with Brian Kernighan, bwk@research.att.com.

As I've said before, working with the FSF means playing by their rules.
I don't care to say anything else about it.

We now return you to our regular discussion on the values of
tar/compress/uuencoded source postings....
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