From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To: Jon Steinhart <jon@fourwinds.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <TUHS@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Origins of globbing
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2020 18:23:31 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANCZdfoztCZO7oZkkwfCB7pgS2xGmGehc1JYZQru=XnejhaAuA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202010062321.096NLYWY1543901@darkstar.fourwinds.com>
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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
>
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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 [this message]
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
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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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