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

[Paul Robinson]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 11:20:34AM -0400, Paul Chvostek wrote:

> Unless it's absolutely vital to use something else, yes.  Awk has been
> around forever, and behaves in a more predictable and consistent fashion
> even than perl (due at least in part to the smaller toolset it offers).

STOP! OK, I forgot to mention, somebody mailed me off-list and pointed out 
in -CURRENT, awk is non GPL. It uses one-true-awk which is BSD licensed.

So, awk stays, and it's not GPL'ed any more. 

-- 
Paul Robinson