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

[Terry Lambert]

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?
> 
> 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.

For most of the things you mention, they are included in
"The Programmer's Workbench" from Bell Labs, which is now
available for free download, including ksh93, awk, troff,
etc..

Why not use the real things, if you are going to replace the
GNU replacements?

-- Terry