| AWK |
AWK has been ported to the QL by Peter Tillier and is a Unix language that is used for all sorts of list processing tasks. The name comes from the three writers of the language; Aho, Weinberger, and Kernighan. AWK works very similar to grep. For each line of input, it searches for a given |
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| Editor's Forum |
In this issue I want to take a look at a couple of Unix languages that have recently been ported to the QL. In the ql-users mailing list, I’ve seen some comments that basically say “Why use these other languages on the QL? All development should be done in SuperBasic or C68 and use the |
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| PERL |
Perl is a language that I started playing with back around 1989. When I started using Perl for a project, a few people wondered if this was a good idea, given that Perl was a relatively obcure language and they worried about people knowing Perl after I left. Well, Perl has now become THE language |
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| The Shell |
While on the subject of Unix languages, Adrian Ives has continued the work of P. J. Taylor with The Shell, a command line shell for QDOS. Given my Unix background, I would say that The Shell is similar in functionality to Unix shells (C, Bourne, T, Korn). The Shell considers commands to be programs to |
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