From: pa@see.signature.invalid   
      
   Lawrence D?Oliveiro  wrote:   
   > On Sat, 10 Jan 2026 21:20:47 -0000 (UTC), Thomas Koenig wrote:   
      
   > > Around 1989, I got access to UNIX workstations and also worked in C   
   > > and various script languages, especially Perl.   
      
   > What else was there in terms of ?scripting? at the time?   
      
   awk and sed, called from shell scripts.   
      
   Of course if you blend shell, sed and awk, you get perl 4.   
      
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