AWK author Brian Kernighan, a professor at Princeton University, revealed in an interview (YouTube, 8 minutes or so) that he recently did a little work adding Unicode support to AMK. The AWK language is used for parsing text files and is one of the core components of the Unix operating system, and any POSIX-compliant operating system is considered to include AWK. It takes its name from the initials of the surnames of the three original authors, Alfred Aho , Peter Weinberger and Brian Kernighan . Professor Kernighan is also K, one of the authors of the famous “C Programming Language”, one of the authors of K&R, and the other R is C author Dennis Ritchie. He named the Unix system and invented the “Hello, world” language demonstration. The original AWK is called One True AWK on GitHub. In May this year, 80-year-old Professor Kernighan said in an email that he was learning the Git system and would submit a pull request to add Unicode support for AMK.
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