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From: still@usceast.UUCP (Bert Still)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Origin of 'awk'
Message-ID: <2543@usceast.UUCP>
Date: 12 Mar 88 17:21:52 GMT
References: <2111@ukecc.engr.uky.edu> <1590003@otter.hple.hp.com>
Reply-To: still@usceast.UUCP (Bert Still)
Organization: University of South Carolina, Columbia
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Summary: I really hope we can avoid another round of Editor-Wars...

In article <1590003@otter.hple.hp.com> kers@otter.hple.hp.com (Christopher Dollin) writes:
>
>Isn't it an abbreviation of "awkward"? I hear there's a command whose name is
>a contraction of "vile" .....................................................

Nope. It's named after its developers Aho, Weinberger, and Kernigan... And as
far as the veiled references to "vi", let's avoid another round of editor-
bashing, shall we?

						Bert
						still@cs.scarolina.edu