[TUHS] Seeking wisdom from Unix Greybeards

[Cameron Kaiser]

> One area that I think held awk back was the lack of standardized c bindings
> for easy extensibility.

I'm not sure I agree. I despise how half the extant Python and Perl code
requires compiled shared libraries (apart from the standard library). I
make it a point to write script code with minimal dependencies other than
any utilities that might called by system() or moral equivalents.

-- 
------------------------------------ personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ --
  Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckaiser at floodgap.com
-- The steady state of disks is full. -- Ken Thompson -------------------------