Date:        Thu, 13 Jul 2000 12:32:51 +1000
    From:        matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
    Message-ID:  <9576.963455571@eterna.com.au>

  | one of perl's best points is that it *highly* derived from awk...  :-)

No, that was one of perl's best points.  perl now is *highly* derived
from awk (and sed, as it always was), and C, and libc, and ADA, and
cobol, and ...

It seems these days that if there's anything it doesn't emulate today,
it will tomorrow.

kre