From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Hume <andrew@humeweb.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Regular Expressions
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2020 20:45:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFNqd5UCs2A0HjnxPjsgBAVfwo7_9BMzXpmGmxx1=YB14y38Qg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <88FBBEDA-3D60-4782-9C4B-43C64691BC35@humeweb.com>
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On Sat, 1 Aug 2020 at 02:38, Andrew Hume <andrew@humeweb.com> wrote:
>
> during the mid 80s, i was preparing one of the first invited talks for
> USENIX on the subject of regular expressions.
> i had concocted a massive RE that matched all the known spellings of
> saddam hussein. (it was complicated,
> and there were many different romanizations active at the time.)
>
> dennis ritchie wandered into the unix room and asked what it was and then
> immediately applied it to our
> somewhat newish AP news wire feed. it matched two new spellings!!
>
I recalled that one being about Khadaffi, of Libya, and there being a
punchline involving one of the names being
"squid-breath."
--
When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the
question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-31 22:57 Will Senn
2020-08-01 0:01 ` Bakul Shah
2020-08-01 0:36 ` Rob Pike
2020-08-01 0:53 ` John P. Linderman
2020-08-01 1:31 ` Bakul Shah
2020-08-01 1:39 ` Larry McVoy
2020-08-01 2:33 ` Will Senn
2020-08-01 2:50 ` Rich Morin
2020-08-01 3:01 ` Larry McVoy
2020-08-01 3:07 ` Will Senn
2020-08-01 4:31 ` Earl Baugh
2020-08-01 4:53 ` ron minnich
2020-08-01 5:48 ` Andrew Hume
2020-08-01 13:31 ` Richard Salz
2020-08-01 13:43 ` Andrew Hume
2020-08-02 0:45 ` Christopher Browne [this message]
2020-08-09 1:00 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-08-09 1:15 ` Nelson H. F. Beebe
2020-08-09 23:53 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-08-10 1:38 ` John Cowan
2020-08-01 0:00 Noel Chiappa
2020-08-01 21:12 Doug McIlroy
2020-08-09 23:44 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-08-10 0:50 ` Rob Pike
2020-08-02 4:59 Rudi Blom
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