How to pronounce AWK
Leuk
i'm a newbie to awk. Have anyone asked before how to pronounce awk,
other than a-w-k.
Niall Smart
> other than a-w-k.
No, no-one asked before. I wonder why. Do you need help with any
other words? Gawk? Mawk? Talk? Chalk? Linux?
Niall
Markus Fleck
> It has been asked before, there is really nothing new under
> this sun ;-). The canonical pronunciation is like the first
> syllable of "awkward" or like the bird name "auk". So it
> rhymes fine with talk and chalk.
In Germany, it's usually pronounded a-w-k. After all, AWK stands for
"Aho-Weinberger-Kernighan", and not for "awkward". :-) But then, in
German a "W" is pronounced more like "V", which makes such acronyms
(like also "WWW" :-) much easier to spell.
Yours,
Markus.
--
"Aug 21, 1997:
fixed some bugs in sub and gsub when replacement includes \\.
this is a dark, horrible corner, but at least now i believe that
the behavior is the same as gawk and the intended posix standard."
-- From Brian Kernighan's original AWK distribution's FIXES file.
Jim Monty
> Peter Wyzlic <p...@pwyz.rhein.de> wrote:
> > It has been asked before, there is really nothing new under
> > this sun ;-). The canonical pronunciation is like the first
> > syllable of "awkward" or like the bird name "auk". So it
> > rhymes fine with talk and chalk.
>
> In Germany, it's usually pronounded a-w-k. After all, AWK stands for
> "Aho-Weinberger-Kernighan", and not for "awkward". :-) But then, in
> German a "W" is pronounced more like "V", which makes such acronyms
> (like also "WWW" :-) much easier to spell.
In _The AWK Programming Language_ (ISBN 0-201-07981-X), Messrs. Aho,
Kernighan, and Weinberger never state or even imply that the name of the
language is an acronym composed of the first initials of their last names.
They do, however, adorn the cover of the book with a small image of a
black-and-white short-necked diving seabird of the family Alcidae known
as the 'auk' (pronounced 'ok, where \o\ is as aw in law). Throughout the
text, they spell 'awk' in lowercase letters and capitalize it when it's
the first word of a sentence, clearly treating it as a word, not as an
acronym. And in the first sentence of the epilog of _The AWK Programming
Language_ (p. 181), they juxtapose the name of the language with the word
'awkward' to form a word play:
By now the reader should be a reasonably adept awk user, or at least
no longer an awkward beginner.
So I pronounce the name of the language as the inventors obviously
pronounced it: as a single-syllable word that rhymes with 'talk'.
--
Jim Monty
mo...@primenet.com
Tempe, Arizona USA
Chris Gray
: Markus Fleck <fl...@informatik.uni-bonn.de> wrote:
: > Peter Wyzlic <p...@pwyz.rhein.de> wrote:
: > > It has been asked before, there is really nothing new under
: > > this sun ;-). The canonical pronunciation is like the first
: > > syllable of "awkward" or like the bird name "auk". So it
: > > rhymes fine with talk and chalk.
: >
: > In Germany, it's usually pronounded a-w-k. After all, AWK stands for
: > "Aho-Weinberger-Kernighan", and not for "awkward". :-) But then, in
: > German a "W" is pronounced more like "V", which makes such acronyms
: > (like also "WWW" :-) much easier to spell.
:
: In _The AWK Programming Language_ (ISBN 0-201-07981-X), Messrs. Aho,
: Kernighan, and Weinberger never state or even imply that the name of the
: language is an acronym composed of the first initials of their last names.
: They do, however, adorn the cover of the book with a small image of a
: black-and-white short-necked diving seabird of the family Alcidae known
: as the 'auk'
This bird is known in French as 'pingouin', so presumably "awk" is pronounced
the same in French ...
--
Chris Gray
newcn
name after author of the program. In that book, at the end of awk
section, he kind of had an end note about awk. He said of awk "even the
name is unimaginary -- named after author". I don't have exact quote,
since the book is in my office and I don't have internet accesss there.
i read your comment and I checked book today. This is what I found. If
anyone like to know exact quote from the book, please email me and I'll
be glad send out.
Xixi
In article <70g1ff$pn8$1...@nnrp03.primenet.com>, mo...@primenet.com
says...
>
>Markus Fleck <fl...@informatik.uni-bonn.de> wrote:
>> Peter Wyzlic <p...@pwyz.rhein.de> wrote:
>> > It has been asked before, there is really nothing new under
>> > this sun ;-). The canonical pronunciation is like the first
>> > syllable of "awkward" or like the bird name "auk". So it
>> > rhymes fine with talk and chalk.
>>
>> In Germany, it's usually pronounded a-w-k. After all, AWK stands for
>> "Aho-Weinberger-Kernighan", and not for "awkward". :-) But then, in
>> German a "W" is pronounced more like "V", which makes such acronyms
>> (like also "WWW" :-) much easier to spell.
>
>In _The AWK Programming Language_ (ISBN 0-201-07981-X), Messrs. Aho,
>Kernighan, and Weinberger never state or even imply that the name of
the
>language is an acronym composed of the first initials of their last
name
>s.
>They do, however, adorn the cover of the book with a small image of a
>black-and-white short-necked diving seabird of the family Alcidae known
>as the 'auk' (pronounced 'ok, where \o\ is as aw in law). Throughout
the
>text, they spell 'awk' in lowercase letters and capitalize it when it's
>the first word of a sentence, clearly treating it as a word, not as an
>acronym. And in the first sentence of the epilog of _The AWK
Programming
>Language_ (p. 181), they juxtapose the name of the language with the
wor
cgiree...@gmail.com
> hi
pop
the "g" - the gnu awk, gawk is pronounced just like gawk (to stare) - HTH
--
Best wishes;
(^\pop/^) -> Mark
Janis Papanagnou
>>
>> i'm a newbie to awk. Have anyone asked before how to pronounce awk,
>> other than a-w-k.
(Which doesn't hinder me from calling it A W K in my native language,
which is phonecically [aː] [veː] [kaː] . A different issue in Englisch,
where that abbreviation sounds more difficult [eɪ] [ˈdʌbəl juː] [keɪ] .
The "double-U" is a very clumsy term for a single letter and I understand
people want to avoid it.)
Janis
Kenny McCormack
Janis Papanagnou <janis_pa...@hotmail.com> wrote:
...
>which is phonecically [aː] [veː] [kaː] . A different issue in Englisch,
>where that abbreviation sounds more difficult [eɪ] [ˈdʌbəl juː] [keɪ] .
>The "double-U" is a very clumsy term for a single letter and I understand
>people want to avoid it.)
>
>Janis
>
As in George Dubya Bush.
--
"Unattended children will be given an espresso and a free kitten."
Panos Papadopoulos
> hi
> i'm a newbie to awk. Have anyone asked before how to pronounce awk,
> other than a-w-k.
Just listen how Brian Kernighan (one of the writers) pronounces awk in the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FWB9CJc_7w&t=0m12s
Manuel Collado
mascot). See
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/auk
for pronunciation.
HTH.
--
Manuel Collado - http://lml.ls.fi.upm.es/~mcollado
Kenny McCormack
Manuel Collado <m-co...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
...
>mascot). See
>
> http://www.dictionary.com/browse/auk
>
>for pronunciation.
the northern hemisphere (Europe and North America) while one of the
defining characteristics of penguins is that they are all found south of
the equator (natively).
Wikipedia says (among other things):
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Auks are superficially similar to penguins having black-and-white colours,
upright posture and some of their habits. Nevertheless, they are not
closely related to penguins, but rather are believed to be an example of
moderate convergent evolution. Auks are monomorphic (males and females are
similar in appearance).
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Back to topic: Yes, the two words (the language that is on-topic in this
newsgroup and the bird being discussed in this post) are pronounced
identically. And that's why there is a picture of an auk on the cover of
the Effective AWK Programming book.
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Kaz Kylheku
> Auks are superficially similar to penguins having black-and-white colours,
> upright posture and some of their habits.