A software program platform called AWK, which was first introduced in 1977, has finally undergone a long-awaited replacement almost 50 years later.
The fact that Brian Kernighan, an 80-year-old Canadian computer scientist who is also a member of the team behind the software program's acronym( AWK)— Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kerrigan— was involved in the launch adds to its extra-funny spectacle.
Working system phrases must contain AWK, a programming language designed to look into textual content information, in order to be POSIX compliant. Model 7 UNIX, which was developed by Bell Labs before AT& T commercialized it, is credited with being the final version of the Unix. It first appeared in 1979. MacOS, VxWorks, and z/ OS are just a few of the POSIX-certified OSs.
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Kernighan mentions the replace entitles "Add BWK's e mail" in a GitHub entry. He claims:
"Last but not least, I've resumed playing around with Unicode in awk after the educational treadmill slows down."
He claims that he now has it "largely" operational "via a combination of internally using utf-8 for size() and internally converting it to ukf-32 for common expressions."
One realloc bug was found inside the replace, which makes Kernighan think they might be extra. Although "truthful quantity" testing has already been done, he notes that "clearly additional exams are desired."
The thread's comments emphasise the significance of the change, with one-liners like "wow" and "respect" peppered in.
According to The Register, the code was already changed earlier in 2022, but it was only recently released interview with Kernighan that brought it to the attention of a larger audience.
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