Origin of 'awk'

[Hwa Jin Bae]

In article <1590003 at otter.hple.hp.com> kers at otter.hple.hp.com (Christopher Dollin) writes:
>>@AWK!!!@
>>
>>Is *this* the true origin of one of my favorite UNIX commands?
>>Could it have really come from a campy 60's action/adventure show?
>
>Isn't it an abbreviation of "awkward"? I hear there's a command whose name is
>a contraction of "vile" .....................................................

Close...but,  Aho Weinberger Kernigan (AWK) - composed of first
letters of three authors' last names.
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