Arnold Robbins, an Atlanta native, is a professional
programmer and
technical author. He has worked with Unix systems since 1980, when
he was introduced to a PDP-11 running a version of Sixth Edition Unix.
He has been a heavy AWK user since 1987, when he became involved
with gawk, the GNU project's version of AWK. As a member of the
POSIX 1003.2 balloting group, he helped shape the POSIX standard for
AWK. He is currently the maintainer of gawk and its documentation. He
is also coauthor of the sixth edition of O'Reilly's Learning the vi
Editor. Since late 1997, he and his family have been living happily in
Israel.