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Received: from owl.CS.Arizona.EDU by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Mon, 17 May 1993 07:43:22 MST
Received: by owl.cs.arizona.edu; Mon, 17 May 1993 07:43:22 MST
Date: 15 May 93 20:03:20 GMT
From: sdd.hp.com!portal!cup.portal.com!Eric-Amick@hplabs.hpl.hp.com (Richard E Amick)
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Subject: Re: runtime debugger and the Icon fan club.
Message-Id: <81438@cup.portal.com>
References: <9082.9305120849@desktop.desktop.co.uk>
Sender: icon-group-request@cs.arizona.edu
To: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
Status: R
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
>Come now, this is supposed to be a discussion about _programming_
>languages :-) Awk may be Turing-complete, but I don't regard it as
>anything other than a hacking tool. And, as a matter of fact, I
>now use Icon in preference, because the only message I ever seemed
>to get from awk was the well-known
>
>awk: syntax error near line n
>awk: bailing out near line n
>
>where n was usually less than three!
>
>regards
> Steve
You should try nawk, the newer version of awk, instead; besides more
functions and the ability to define your own functions, it has much
better error messages. I'll bet that gawk (the GNU counterpart) is the
same way.