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Gawk maintainer receives USENIX Lifetime Achievemen Award

From mack@[email protected] (Mack The Knife) to comp.lang.awk on Sat May 31 19:16:19 2025

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I only recently learned of this; he was given the award this past
summer. See https://www.usenix.org/about/awards/flame.

There is an interview with him here: https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/interview-arnold-robbins

Pretty neat.
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From Ben Bacarisse@[email protected] to comp.lang.awk on Sun Jun 1 11:36:29 2025

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[email protected] (Mack The Knife) writes:

I only recently learned of this; he was given the award this past
summer. See https://www.usenix.org/about/awards/flame.

*hat tip* to Arnold.

I am glad that good work gets some recognition from the community, but I
worry that there is no army of youngsters fired by the same enthusiasm
for free (not as in beer) software. I hope I am wrong about that...
--
Ben.
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