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1. Koz Ross (koz@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 19-Mar-2018 01:17:32 EDT Koz Ross
   TIL that GNU awk has arctan and other trig functions. I _know_ that it's a low-hanging fruit, but seriously, what UNIX philosophy?
   1. Koz Ross (koz@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 19-Mar-2018 01:18:03 EDT Koz Ross

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      "What do we really need in our line-based text processing tool?" "TRIG FUNCTIONS" "Yeah, totally a worthwhile feature - do one thing well!"
      1. Koz Ross (koz@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 19-Mar-2018 01:26:39 EDT Koz Ross

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         I apologise, I am being unfair to GNU awk - POSIX awk also has those things. Yup, 'do one thing well'. Totally.
   2. arunisaac (arunisaac@social.systemreboot.net)'s status on Monday, 19-Mar-2018 09:56:39 EDT arunisaac

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      If we take the Unix philosophy seriously, we should throw out grep and sed, and keep only awk. :-P