Origin of 'awk'
Steve DeJarnett
steve at polyslo.UUCP
Sat Mar 12 18:06:08 AEST 1988
In article <46800003 at uxf.cso.uiuc.edu> hafner at uxf.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>2) That it was named after the Author's dog, Biff.
I heard that it was the dog that hung around the lab where they were
working on it. This discussion occured sometime last year, and I believe
this was accepted by at least a majority as how it happened. Anyone else
remember differently???
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