ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson) (10/15/89)
Thanks to everyone who responded to my posting about {g,n,}awk's odd handling
of commands such as
awk '/=/'
A GNU person told me the problem is to be fixed in the next release of gawk.
An AT&T person identified the place in the source code where changes would
be needed to fix the behavior of nawk.
And Sun people claim it is not a bug in awk; the awk writeups are to be
changed to explain the situation, though.
Responses very much in line with the corporate mentalities involved, yes?
--
Arthur David Olson ado@alw.nih.gov ADO is a trademark of Ampex.brister@td2cad.intel.com (James Brister) (10/16/89)
In article <9157@elsie.UUCP> ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson) writes: > And Sun people claim it is not a bug in awk; the awk writeups are to be > changed to explain the situation, though. If I write a program that has a bug in it, and then after I discover the bug I change the documentation to reflect the bug, isn't it a bug any more? :-) James -- James Brister brister@td2cad.intel.com Intel Corp. {decwrl,oliveb}!td2cad!brister
samlb@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Sam Bassett RCD) (10/17/89)
In article <BRISTER.89Oct15102425@aries.td2cad.intel.com> brister@td2cad.intel.com (James Brister) writes: >If I write a program that has a bug in it, and then after I discover the bug I >change the documentation to reflect the bug, isn't it a bug any more? :-) Nope -- it's a _feature_! ;-) Sam'l Bassett, Sterling Software @ NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field CA 94035 Work: (415) 694-4792; Home: (415) 969-2644 samlb@well.sf.ca.us samlb@ames.arc.nasa.gov <Disclaimer> := 'Sterling doesn't _have_ opinions -- much less NASA!'