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From: alex@am.sublink.org (Alex Martelli)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: using awk with records that have over 100 fields
Keywords: awk
Message-ID: <1991Jan03.212009.211@am.sublink.org>
Date: 3 Jan 91 21:20:09 GMT
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tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes on awk vs perl:
	...
>that this is just a manifestation in Unixdom of a principle familiar to
>sociologists and historians.  While the desire to embrace better

I rather believe it's a principle more familiar to booksellers - we're
just waiting for THE BOOK to get into our little grabby hands!-)

I know I don't speak for all Unix-lovers, but I wouldn't use awk, ksh,
icon, and so on, so willingly, if each did not have a good-to-great
book about it.  Great-to-good books ain't all (I *do* use dmake, and
*don't* use ratfor, for example...) - but they surely DO help!
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