Origin of 'awk'

Rahul Dhesi dhesi at bsu-cs.UUCP
Thu Mar 10 12:25:41 AEST 1988


In article <1448 at mtune.ATT.COM> rkh at mtune.UUCP (Robert Halloran) writes:
>A, W, K for the authors' last initials, OK?

Sure, and I suppose you'll tell us next that Kermit stands for
Kilobaud-rate ERror-free Microcomputer Information Transfer.

Hah.  Actually, it all goes back to a little green frog named Awk.

Guvf vf zber sha vs V yrnir bhg gur fzvyrl snpr.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi



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