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[[Glossary| Glossary]]\\ see also [[AwkOnWindows| AwkOnWindows]] and [[FIXES| FIXES]] and [[AwkOnWindowsHowto| AwkOnWindowsHowto]]. {{{ Mel Brooks: 'it is good to have three awks' Forrest Gump: 'awk is like a box of chocolates' Dirty Harry: 'you have to be asking yourself- did he fire six awks or only five?' bwk: (Brian W. Kernighan --- the "k" of awk) http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/testing.html 'harder than anticipated to use Gawk as a reference implementation;' .... 'although the Awk language is ostensibly standardized, there are enough dark corners .... this is not a good long-term solution.' 'in some of the most mysterious code known to man' (in the gawk.html doc - attributed to bwk) http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/ 'Dark corners are basically fractal — no matter how much you illuminate, there's always a smaller but darker one.' k&r 1988 'c programming language' A7.3.2 p.202 'the arguments and the function designator are completely evaluated , including all side effects, before the function is entered.' B1.3 p.245 'White space characters are blank, tab, newline, carriage return, vertical tab, and formfeed.' me: 'yes, i am an idiot' 'if it aint broke, i can break it' }}}

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