From its FAQ:

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awk is a *(programming language), named after its three original authors: Alfred V. <strong>A</strong>ho, Peter J. <strong>W</strong>einberger, _(Brian W.  <strong>K</strong>ernighan|Brian Kernighan).
<br>They write: ``<cite>Awk is a convenient and expressive programming language that can be applied to a wide variety of computing and data-manipulation tasks.</cite>''
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<ul class="links">
  <li>_("The AWK Programming Language"|http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/awkbook/index.html), <em>the</em> book about AWK.</li>
  <li>_("Awk Language FAQ"|http://www.faqs.org/faqs/computer-lang/awk/faq/).</li>
  <li>_("An AWK to C++ Translator (.ps)"|http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/bwk/awkc++.ps).</li>
  <li>_("awk links"|http://dmoz.org/Computers/Programming/Languages/Awk/) from _(dmoz).</li>
  <li>_("An Awk Tutorial"|http://www.vectorsite.net/tsawk.html).</li>
  <li>_("AWK Reference"|http://linux.frugal.org/ref/awk.html).</li>
</ul>

<ul class="implementations">
  <li>_("The One True AWK"|http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/awkbook/index.html) .</li>
  <li>_("The Home of Awka"|http://awka.sourceforge.net/) Open Source, AWK to C Conversion Tool.</li>
  <li>_("gawk"|http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/gawk.html) (GNU awk).</li>
  <li>_("mawk (ftp)"|ftp://ftp.whidbey.net/pub/brennan/).</li>
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