7 Oct
2020
7 Oct
'20
5:21 a.m.
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.
Jon