From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: grog@lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 09:35:20 +1000 Subject: [TUHS] Regular Expressions (was Re: origin of the name 'glob') In-Reply-To: <20170709223610.8A00D124AE9F@mail.bitblocks.com> References: <20170709223610.8A00D124AE9F@mail.bitblocks.com> Message-ID: <20170709233520.GF57734@eureka.lemis.com> On Sunday, 9 July 2017 at 15:36:10 -0700, Bakul Shah wrote: > On Sun, 09 Jul 2017 22:08:45 -0000 ron minnich wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 3:06 PM Steve Johnson wrote: >> >>> 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! There's also a Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleene_star Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger grog at lemis.com for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 163 bytes Desc: not available URL: