From: bakul@bitblocks.com (Bakul Shah)
Subject: [TUHS] Regular Expressions (was Re: origin of the name 'glob')
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2017 15:36:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170709223610.8A00D124AE9F@mail.bitblocks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 09 Jul 2017 22:08:45 -0000." <CAP6exYJjSstR-SWYo6b6pHHqnbueuyktO2t0jJex8M3Q8RJMeg@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, 09 Jul 2017 22:08:45 -0000 ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 3:06 PM Steve Johnson <scj at yaccman.com> wrote:
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> >
> > The earliest reference is a paper by Kleene in 1956. In fact, I recall
> > that * was sometimes called "the Kleene star" in the day...
> >
> >
> >
> that's how they taught it to me: Kleene closure or Kleene *
For the curious, here is Kleene's paper:
http://www.dlsi.ua.es/~mlf/nnafmc/papers/kleene56representation.pdf
Kudos to whoever retyped the paper in TeX!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-09 22:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-09 21:55 Paul Winalski
2017-07-09 22:06 ` Steve Johnson
2017-07-09 22:08 ` ron minnich
2017-07-09 22:36 ` Bakul Shah [this message]
2017-07-09 23:35 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2017-07-09 23:43 ` Toby Thain
2017-07-10 13:47 ` arnold
2017-07-10 12:38 Noel Chiappa
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