RMS says: "Use BSD, for goodness sake!"

[Simon L. Nielsen]

On 2003.06.26 13:46:01 +0100, Paul Robinson wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 02:20:27PM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> 
> > Actually there is. awk is a part of IEEE Std 1003.1, so if we want
> > FreeBSD to be, or at least as much as possible, a real UNIX it can't be
> > removed.  It is also used quite a bit in the build system, espcially
> > since perl was removed.
> 
> Ah. That's that then. Who the hell came up with that idea?

Sombody at IEEE I would guess :).

> Anyway, at the moment the one there is actually gawk. Are there no other 
> implementations knocking around? There must be if it's in the standard.

Actually I just noticed that awk in CURRENT is contrib/one-true-awk
which, as far as I can tell, has a BSD/MIT style license.

> Incidentally, is it a stated goal of the project to conform to IEEE Std 
> 1003.1? 

I have not seen an official statement about this, but there do exists
the FreeBSD C99/POSIX project : 'The FreeBSD C99 & POSIX Conformance
Project aims to implement all requirements of the ISO 9899:1999 (C99)
and IEEE 1003.1-2001 (POSIX) standards'
http://www.freebsd.org/projects/c99/index.html .

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen
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