The AWK Programming Language, 2nd Edition Early Release

[J Naman]

A web search revealed: The AWK Programming Language, 2nd Edition
by Alfred V. Aho, Brian W. Kernighan, Peter J. Weinberger
Released September 2023
Publisher(s): Addison-Wesley Professional
ISBN: 9780138269876 240 pages
"Read it now on the O’Reilly learning platform with a 10-day free trial."

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/the-awk-programming/9780138269876/
It says "Early Release" and "read it now"
(I do not work for oreilly, Addison-Wesley, and have zero financial gain from this book.)

[Janis Papanagnou]

Thanks for the link.

I abstained from registering, so I haven't read it. But from the
table of contents we can see some changes:

New chapters:
2. Awk in Action
2.1 Personal Computation
2.2 Selection
2.3 Transformation
2.4 Summarization
2.5 Personal Databases
2.6 A Personal Library
2.7 Summary

3. Exploratory Data Analysis
3.1 The Sinking of the Titanic
3.2 Beer Ratings
3.3 Grouping Data
3.4 Unicode Data
3.5 Basic Graphs and Charts
3.6 Summary

Reorganized chapter: 6.6 Recursive-Descent Parsing
7.6 A Recursive-Descent Parser for Arithmetic Expressions
7.7 A Recursive-Descent Parser for a Subset of Awk

Relocated chapter: Ch. 2 "The AWK Language" went to
Appendix A: Awk Reference Manual


I cannot see whether the chapter texts changed or have been expanded.

Janis

[jeorge]

On 8/2/23 12:10 AM, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
> I cannot see whether the chapter texts changed or have been expanded.

They have. For example, chapter 3. Exploratory Data Analysis, contains
"3.1 The Sinking of the Titanic" and "3.2 Beer Ratings", as well as "3.4
Unicode Data".

Comparative page counts:
- 1st edition: 210
- 2nd edition: 275

jeorge

[jeorge]

On 8/2/23 5:00 PM, jeorge wrote:
> Comparative page counts:
>  - 1st edition: 210
>  - 2nd edition: 275

Sorry -- PDF pages != print pages; 2nd edition on publishers wedsite
says "240 pages" for the print edition.

[J Naman]

FYI: prices, dates, and gotchas
$43.19 Preorder book + Epub+PDF https://www.informit.com/store/awk-programming-language-9780138269722 This eBook requires no passwords or activation to read. We customize your eBook by discreetly watermarking it with your name, making it uniquely yours. *** WATERMARKED with your name to discourage theft. Good! So people like Brian K & A. Robbins get paid something for their prodigious efforts. ***

*** OCT 2nd for hardcopy, SEPT 22nd for Kindle *** Amazon: pre-order BOOK $39.99 Oct 2nd; Kindle $31.99 Sept 22nd
https://www.amazon.com/Books-Addison-Wesley-Professional-Computing-Series/s?i=stripbooks&rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_lbr_books_series_browse-bin%3AAddison-Wesley+Professional+Computing+Series&s=date-desc-rank&ds=v1%3AoLzf9NoS28TBRtCtwb0WDI5%2Bjx3YM%2FM7Di%2BrfeV3o%2BY&qid=1690933516&ref=sr_st_date-desc-rank

[Janis Papanagnou]

On 03.08.2023 01:00, jeorge wrote:
> On 8/2/23 12:10 AM, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
>> I cannot see whether the chapter texts changed or have been expanded.
>
> They have. For example, chapter 3. Exploratory Data Analysis, contains
> "3.1 The Sinking of the Titanic" and "3.2 Beer Ratings", as well as "3.4
> Unicode Data".

I listed ch.3 under [completely] "New chapters" in this new edition.

>
> Comparative page counts:
> - 1st edition: 210

My [old] edition doesn't seem to have that chapter "Exploratory Data
Analysis" at all. - What is this "1st edition"?

Do I have a "0th edition" then?

Janis

[Janis Papanagnou]

From the "Contents" page I can only see new or reorganized chapters.

Of course the page counts of editions likely differ, whether PDF or
print, since there are completely new chapters (and also relocations
and reorganizations of chapters).

In my initial post I wrote:
"I cannot see whether the chapter texts changed or have been expanded."

and what I meat was the texts of the previously _existing_ chapters;
whether they have been enhanced, corrected, rewritten, whatever, or
just copied. I cannot see that.

Janis

[jeorge]

On 8/3/23 1:22 AM, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
> In my initial post I wrote:
> "I cannot see whether the chapter texts changed or have been expanded."

> and what I meat was the texts of the previously_existing_ chapters;

> whether they have been enhanced, corrected, rewritten, whatever, or
> just copied. I cannot see that.

Looks like they did a bit of both (I've got an epub of the pre-release
of the new/2nd edition as well as a print copy of the original/1st edition).