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+This file lists future projects and enhancements for gawk.  Items are listed
+in roughly the order they will be done for a given release.  This file is
+mainly for use by the developers to help keep themselves on track, please
+don't bug us too much about schedules or what all this really means.
+
+With the 3.0 release, we are acknowledging that awk is not PERL, nor should
+it become PERL.  (To paraphrase Dennis Ritchie, "If you want PERL, you
+know where to get it.")
+
+The focus on the future is thus narrowed to performance and functional
+enhancements, with only minor plans for significant new features.
+
+For 3.0
+=======
+	DONE: Move to autoconf-based configure system.
+
+	DONE: Allow RS to be a regexp.
+
+	DONE: RT variable to hold text of record terminator
+
+	DONE: split() with null string as third arg to split up strings
+
+	DONE: Analogously, setting FS="" would split the input record into
+	individual characters.
+
+	DONE: Generalize IGNORECASE
+		- any value makes it work, not just numeric non-zero
+		- make it apply to *all* string comparisons
+
+	DONE: Incorporate newer dfa.c and regex.c
+
+	DONE: Go to POSIX regexps
+
+	DONE: Make regex + dfa less dependant on gawk header file includes
+
+	DONE: Source code formatting cleaned up and regularized
+
+	DONE: Clean up code by isolating system-specific functions in
+	separate files.
+
+	DONE: General sub function:
+		gensub(pat, sub, global_flag[, line])
+	that return the substituted strings and allow \1 etc.
+	in the sub string.
+
+	DONE: Add AWKPATH to ENVIRON if it's not there
+
+	DONE: Undertake significant directory reorganization.
+
+	DONE: Extensive manual cleanup:
+		Use of texinfo 2.0 features
+		Lots more examples
+		Document posix regexps
+		Document all of the above.
+
+In 3.1
+======
+	A PROCINFO array to replace /dev/pid, /dev/user, et al.
+
+	DONE: Use mmap to read input files on systems that support it.
+
+	Add `abort' statement a la Thompson awk.
+
+	Consider removing use of and/or need for the protos.h file.
+
+	Use a new or improved dfa.
+
+	Integrate GNU NLS support.
+
+	Bring out hooks for NLS support into gawk itself.
+
+	DBM storage of awk arrays. Try to allow multiple dbm packages.
+
+	Use GNU malloc.
+
+	Use rx instead of regex.
+
+	DONE: Do a reference card.
+
+	? Have strftime() pay attention to the value of ENVIRON["TZ"]
+
+	Additional manual features:
+		Document use of dbm arrays
+		Document NLS support
+		? Add exercises
+		? Add an error messages section to the manual
+		? A section on where gawk is bounded
+			regex
+			i/o
+			sun fp conversions
+
+For 3.2
+=======
+	Add a lint check if the return value of a function is used but
+	the function did not supply a value.
+
+	Do an optimization pass over parse tree?
+
+	Make 	awk '/foo/' files...	run at egrep speeds
+
+For 4.x:
+========
+
+Create a gawk compiler?
+
+Create a gawk-to-C translator? (or C++??)
+
+Provide awk profiling and debugging.