From: George Michaelson <ggm@algebras.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <TUHS@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Origins of globbing
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2020 09:11:26 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKr6gn3ZqZ6a6BbFVdwt2UawrHubw8U5MLXJgm9_=_6n2oNbUg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201006154420.2C93C18C099@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
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
On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 1:44 AM Noel Chiappa <jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> > From: John Cowan
>
> > Unfortunately, glob never got its own man page
>
> Errr:
>
> https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V6/usr/man/man8/glob.8
>
> Not the most comprehensive document, but that plus the source would be
> complete.
>
> Noel
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-06 23:11 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 [this message]
2020-10-06 23:21 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-10-07 0:23 ` Warner Losh
2020-10-07 0:32 ` George Michaelson
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
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