From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: paul.winalski@gmail.com (Paul Winalski)
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2017 17:55:50 -0400
Subject: [TUHS] Regular Expressions (was Re:  origin of the name 'glob')
Message-ID: <CABH=_VTcrKy_vV6=8VEM06VA9zRX74-pvt-fPhgQftKoWCho9Q@mail.gmail.com>

On 7/9/17, ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
> All the DEC-10 and 11 operating systems I used had that wildcard, as well
> as IIRC even the PDP-8, maybe someone can confirm the -8.
>
> It would have been nice had RE's been the standard way to glob files, but,
> that said, when I mention .*\.c to people instead of *.c they don't much
> like it.

So when were REs first designed and implemented?  I would imagine that
they came about as a way to extend the old '*' and '?' wildcard
syntax, but that is only a guess.

-Paul W.