AWK

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AWK is a programming language well suited to text processing first developed at Bell Labs in the late 1970s. It was particularly useful to humanists in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and was notably used to develop parts of the ARTFL project.

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Creator(s): Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger and Brian Kernighan (Bell Laboratories)

Creator's Site: http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/awkbook/

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Type of analysis: Programming
Background Processing: Not Applicable
Web Usable: Other
Ease of Use: Moderate
Historic Tool (developed before 2005): Influential No longer in active development
TaDiRAH Goals: Creation
TaDiRAH Methods: Programming

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Amy Dyrbye

For more information on AWK in relation to humanities research practices, please see the following article:

Shoemaker, Peter. \"Book Review: The AWK Programming Language.\" Computers and the Humanities 26.4 (1992): 293-297. Web.

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