awk 2012 ISO

awk_2012_ISO        revised:   2012-09-16 03:35 UTC
The awk 2012  ISO  committee is being formed.
Previous defunct awk standards:   opengroup.org Issue 7 2008
The committee so far:

Dr. Brian W. Kernighan   (the k of awk and maintainer of awk)
home:   http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk
latest awk code:   http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/btl.mirror
book:   ''The AWK Programming Language''
wiki:   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Kernighan
interview:   computerworld.com.au
interview:   oreilly.com

Aharon D. Robbins   (maintainer of gawk)
home:   http://www.skeeve.com
gawk:   http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk
book:   ''Effective awk Programming''
interview:   oreillynet.com
interview:   awk.info robbinsTalks

Dr. Michael D. Brennan   (did mawk up to 1.3.3)
was at boeing - whereabouts unknown

Thomas E. Dickey   (maintainer of mawk 1.3.4)
home:   http://invisible-island.net
mawk:   http://invisible-island.net/mawk
changes from 1.3.3:

Nelson H. F. Beebe   (contributor to awk FIXES)
home:   http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe
pawk:   http://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/pawk

Alfred V. Aho   (the a of awk)
home:   http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~aho/
wiki:   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Aho
interview:   computerworld.com.au

Peter J. Weinberger   (the w of awk)
wiki:   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_J._Weinberger
interview:   princeton.edu
youtube:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJRPGd3RRc4

Make your nominations on  irc://irc.freenode.net/#awk
or send nominations/comments to:   iso.org
see:   http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG2012/
The first meeting of the committee will be on 2012-04-01

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