| [3076] | 1 | This file lists future projects and enhancements for gawk. Items are listed
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| 2 | in roughly the order they will be done for a given release. This file is
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| 3 | mainly for use by the developers to help keep themselves on track, please
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| 4 | don't bug us too much about schedules or what all this really means.
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| 5 |
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| 6 | With the 3.0 release, we are acknowledging that awk is not PERL, nor should
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| 7 | it become PERL. (To paraphrase Dennis Ritchie, "If you want PERL, you
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| 8 | know where to get it.")
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| 10 | The focus on the future is thus narrowed to performance and functional
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| 11 | enhancements, with only minor plans for significant new features.
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| 13 | (OK, so 3.1 had a bad case of feature-itis. I think I'm mostly over it
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| 14 | now, though. :-)
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| 15 |
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| 16 | In 3.1
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| 17 | ======
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| 18 | DONE: A PROCINFO array to replace /dev/pid, /dev/user, et al.
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| 19 |
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| 20 | DONE: Provide awk profiling.
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| 21 |
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| 22 | DONE: Integrate GNU NLS support.
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