From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: clemc@ccc.com (Clem Cole) Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2017 14:08:47 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] origin of the name 'glob' In-Reply-To: References: <20170707165546.D887418C0E7@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: Kids these days .... :-) Although, I bet if you had called it a regular expression - they might have understood. My SW professional daughter learned about regular expressions in the CS theory course a couple of years ago. It was an "ah ha moment" for her. I had tried to teach her 'globing' years early (unsuccessfully at the time). But she remembered enough of the lesson it turns out. Clem On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 1:54 PM, ron minnich wrote: > by the way ... I just put a patch into a repo and my documentation said > 'the name is in glob format' and got dinged by some reviewers: "what is > glob"? > > I blame our education system :-) > > On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 10:38 AM Clem Cole wrote: > >> This is matches my memory/was the way I learned it - ie glob was just >> short for "global" (expression). >> >> Steve / Doug any memories? >> >> On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 12:55 PM, Noel Chiappa >> wrote: >> >>> > From: Ron Minnich >>> >>> > Why was it called glob? I always wondered. >>> >>> Something about global expressions. >>> >>> I recall reading about this somewhere; I tried looking in the man page: >>> >>> http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V1/man/man7/glob.7 >>> >>> but it didn't go into any detail. I don't know where I could have seen >>> it, >>> alas... >>> >>> Noel >>> >> >> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: