Subject: Re: "upgrade" possibility...
To: Harry W. Waddell <waddell@caravan.com>
From: Scott Reynolds <scottr@edsi.org>
List: current-users
Date: 02/11/1996 00:07:35
On Sat, 10 Feb 1996, Harry W. Waddell wrote:
> Peter Seebach wrote:
> >
> > Would anyone be opposed to replaing gawk with mawk? mawk is smaller,
> > faster, and cleaner. It has fewer features, but most of the "features"
> > it lacks are in perl anyway. :)
>
> I guess it would depend on which features I lost. Forcing one to use perl
> to get back the features doesn't sound like much of a cost savings, IMHO.
Ditto.
--scott