Origin of 'awk'

[Bert Still]

In article <1590003 at otter.hple.hp.com> kers at otter.hple.hp.com (Christopher Dollin) writes:
>
>Isn't it an abbreviation of "awkward"? I hear there's a command whose name is
>a contraction of "vile" .....................................................

Nope. It's named after its developers Aho, Weinberger, and Kernigan... And as
far as the veiled references to "vi", let's avoid another round of editor-
bashing, shall we?

						Bert
						still at cs.scarolina.edu