On Tue, Oct 6, 2020, 6:19 PM Jon Steinhart wrote: > George Michaelson writes: > > Regular expressions as a field of study goes back a long way. SNOBOL > > was 62-67 and Bell labs. > > > > globbing was the application of specific syntax markers to concepts, > > which were well understood from all kinds of applied CS fields. > > parsing, lexical analysis, linguistics, grammer, you can probably draw > > a wobbly line from ? and * all the way back to chimpsky grammer > > glasses s/gl/cl/g > > Actually, this goes back to Kleen in 1956, followed by Thompson in 1968. > Kleen closures are a thing I learned about in school :) Jon >