Awk: Power and Promise of a 40 yr old language (2021)

Re:Awk: Power and Promise of a 40 yr old language (2021) by benhoyt on Sunday January 15, 2023 @09:42PM (#34396191)

Brian Kernighan recently told me that "Al and Peter and I" (that is, A, W, and K) are working on a second edition of the book "The AWK Programming Language". The first edition is excellent (it inspired me to write an AWK interpreter in Go). Anyway, I'm really looking forward to seeing what the second edition looks like. I think it'll help renew interest in AWK in general, and no doubt bring some of the examples up to date (though the book has aged very well!).

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Re:Awk: Power and Promise of a 40 yr old language (2021) by asicsp on Sunday January 15, 2023 @10:00PM (#34396317)

Also, Unicode support being added to onetrueawk: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32534173

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Re:Awk: Power and Promise of a 40 yr old language (2021) by alex_muscar on Monday January 16, 2023 @04:57AM (#34398849)

Glad to hear that. Brian Kernighan said that he was thinking of updating the AWK book on numberphile last year. Looking forward to it as well :)

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Re:Awk: Power and Promise of a 40 yr old language (2021) by sargstuff on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @11:20PM (#34423391)

Any links to posts about Kernighan's take on gagh[1]?

[1] https://www.startrek.com/database_article/gagh

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Re:Awk: Power and Promise of a 40 yr old language (2021) by marttt on Friday January 20, 2023 @12:52PM (#34456884)

This is incredible news, thanks for sharing. I would never have guessed that, really. I wonder what's their motivation (why now?).

The AWK book was one of the fundamental books I used to teach myself some coding. The precision of the language is remarkable; I wonder how much will be different in the new edition.

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