The Unix Heritage Society mailing list
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: George Michaelson <ggm@algebras.org>
To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <TUHS@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Origins of globbing
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2020 10:32:01 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKr6gn16K09iGDtxheSSA3Qer-6bxp1nTqZVDEjpTvK_JdA8HA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfoztCZO7oZkkwfCB7pgS2xGmGehc1JYZQru=XnejhaAuA@mail.gmail.com>

yea well I wasn't born until 1961 and anything before then is in black
and white, grainly film, and probably has a cowboy gun in it.

historical fiction is my thing. spelling isn't. you mean Kleene?

On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 10:23 AM Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2020, 6:19 PM Jon Steinhart <jon@fourwinds.com> wrote:
>>
>> George Michaelson writes:
>> > Regular expressions as a field of study goes back a long way.  SNOBOL
>> > was 62-67 and Bell labs.
>> >
>> > globbing was the application of specific syntax markers to concepts,
>> > which were well understood from all kinds of applied CS fields.
>> > parsing, lexical analysis, linguistics, grammer, you can probably draw
>> > a wobbly line from ? and * all the way back to chimpsky grammer
>> > glasses s/gl/cl/g
>>
>> Actually, this goes back to Kleen in 1956, followed by Thompson in 1968.
>
>
> Kleen closures are a thing I learned about in school :)
>
>
>> Jon

  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-07  0:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-06 15:44 Noel Chiappa
2020-10-06 23:11 ` George Michaelson
2020-10-06 23:21   ` Jon Steinhart
2020-10-07  0:23     ` Warner Losh
2020-10-07  0:32       ` George Michaelson [this message]
2020-10-07  0:33         ` Jon Steinhart
2020-10-07  3:14   ` John Cowan
2021-02-04 21:29     ` Greg A. Woods
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-10-06  9:53 Tyler Adams
2020-10-06 15:17 ` John Cowan
2020-10-07  2:25   ` Random832
2020-10-07  2:58     ` George Michaelson
2020-10-07  9:22       ` arnold
2020-10-07  9:45         ` Michael Kjörling
2020-10-08  3:45           ` John Cowan
2020-10-09 18:21             ` Random832
2020-10-08  0:18       ` Dave Horsfall
2020-10-08  0:33         ` Larry McVoy
2020-10-08  2:35         ` Dave Horsfall

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=CAKr6gn16K09iGDtxheSSA3Qer-6bxp1nTqZVDEjpTvK_JdA8HA@mail.gmail.com \
    --to=ggm@algebras.org \
    --cc=TUHS@tuhs.org \
    --cc=imp@bsdimp.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).