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Unix text-processing programming language. Originally published as a throwaway language its authors didn't intend to maintain, but adopted widely. After a user reported spending three weeks blaming the authors for a bug, its creators were among the first to write automated tests for every feature — in the 1980s, well before JUnit and TDD. Now bundled with most operating systems (recently dropped from macOS, still in Ubuntu).

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Cites awk's authors as pioneers of automated testing in the 1980s to protect developer time.

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