“Of all the languages available for the Linux platform few have
as a long a heritage as awk. Awk has been a standard part of Unix
almost from its inception, with the early versions including awk
and using it’s text processing and manipulation capabilities within
some of the standard scripts used to manage the OS.“GNU awk, more affectionately known as gawk, is a compatible
version of the awk language–the language is open standard and
other awk implementations exist–and it continues to be maintained
and developed by Arnold Robbins. Arnold is in fact a long time
proponent of open source, has worked with GNU for many years and
written numerous books on sed, awk, and other open source
technologies…”
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GNU-Friends:
Interview with Arnold Robbins(Mar 16, 2002)