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5 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 0 stories, 5 comments · first 2016-01-14 · latest 2023-01-16

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  1. …have a couple of surviving examples of the code from back then, but here they are for the curious: https://github.com/geary/awk LJPII.AWK is probably the best example. It made a nicely formatted printout of source code on my HP LaserJet II…
  2. …years ago I tracked down a couple of my old Awk programs from around 1990 and posted them here: https://github.com/geary/awk SHANEY.AWK is an implementation of the infamous Mark V. Shaney: https://www.clear.rice.edu/comp200/09fall/textriff/…
    comment by Stratoscope · 2021-09-30 · in Understanding Awk
  3. …I forget which - so there are a few things in it that may not be available in a typical Awk today.) https://github.com/geary/awk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_V._Shaney
    comment by Stratoscope · 2019-09-28 · in Learn Just a Little Awk (2010)
  4. …bit of Awk code that I ever wrote was this print formatting program for the HP LaserJet II: https://github.com/geary/awk/blob/master/LJPII.AWK It printed source code in a "2-up" format, with two pages printed side by side in landscape…
    comment by Stratoscope · 2018-05-24 · in The Awk Programming Language (1988) [pdf]
  5. …it looked like. I know it's here somewhere, but in the meantime the source code will have to do: https://github.com/geary/awk/blob/master/LJPII.AWK Of course, these days I hardly ever print out any code. But back then we printed everything…