Links to Awk, Perl and Vi

Hamilton C shell does not include awk, perl or vi for the simple reason that there are authoritative, free implementations already avilable on the net. Here are my recommendations:

awk

Brian Kernighan is the "K" in awk. From his home page, you'll find a link to The Awk Programming Language page, from which you can download both source and a Windows executable for The One True Awk.

When Brian says this The One, I trust his judgment.

perl

There is still only one root codebase for perl, the one created by Larry Wall. My choice for the best page from which to download the latest source or Windows executable is the O'Reilly page maintained by Tom Christiansen.

vi

Hands down, the best vi ever written is Vim,short for Vi-Improved, by Bram Moolenar. From the Vim home page is a link to the downloads page from which you can download both source and a Windows executable.

Bram hopes that if you find Vim useful, that you'll make a donation to help needy children in Uganda.