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From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Marc Rochkind <mrochkind@gmail.com>
Cc: Will Senn <will.senn@gmail.com>, TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: regex early discussions
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2024 06:34:59 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240304143459.GD5304@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240304033845.GB5304@mcvoy.com>

On Sun, Mar 03, 2024 at 07:38:45PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:
> Marc is right.  I'll add that I grew up in terminal rooms, a bunch of
> kids connected to a VAX 780, like 40 or more.  I have no idea how the
> kids ahead of me learned but I learned by looking at their terminal
> and going "what did you just do?".
> 
> My real understanding of regex is from Henry Spencer's regex.

And this little implementation, I've used this one a lot.   

http://www.cs.yorku.ca/~oz/regex.bun

  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-03-04 14:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-03-04  1:30 [TUHS] " Will Senn
2024-03-04  2:03 ` [TUHS] " Marc Rochkind
2024-03-04  3:38   ` Larry McVoy
2024-03-04  4:18     ` Rich Salz
2024-03-04  7:51     ` Alec Muffett
2024-03-04  8:17     ` Rob Pike
2024-03-04  8:43       ` Alec Muffett
2024-03-04 14:25         ` Jan Schaumann via TUHS
2024-03-04 10:21       ` Bakul Shah via TUHS
2024-03-04 14:34     ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2024-03-04  7:10   ` Otto Moerbeek via TUHS
2024-03-04  7:19     ` Dave Long
2024-03-04  7:25       ` arnold
2024-03-04 12:05         ` Ralph Corderoy
2024-03-04 13:01           ` arnold
2024-03-04  7:25     ` Otto Moerbeek via TUHS
2024-03-04 12:00   ` Peter Weinberger (温博格) via TUHS
2024-03-04 17:05   ` Will Senn
2024-03-04 18:43     ` Rich Salz
2024-03-04 20:57       ` Bakul Shah via TUHS
2024-03-04 21:05       ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2024-03-04 13:17 ` Alan D. Salewski
2024-03-04 16:57 ` Clem Cole
2024-03-04 18:38   ` Phil Budne

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