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From: glenm@mako.UUCP (Glen McCluskey)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: power of sed, awk, etc.
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Date: Mon, 15-Apr-85 22:56:55 EST
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Has anyone ever precisely analyzed just what
class of computations awk and sed are capable of
performing?  I would assume that awk is close to
C, whereas sed is more limited, though someone posted
a Towers of Hanoi in sed a while back.

	Glen McCluskey
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