18 Jul
2018
18 Jul
'18
11:35 p.m.
On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 13:13:52 -0400 George Michaelson <ggm(a)algebras.org> wrote:
George Michaelson writes:
I was always told g/re/p as in g(lobally) apply
r(egular) e(xpression)
and p(rint) was a backronym which reflected the regex commonalities of
sed/awk/grep/ed/ex/vi (ok, the latter two of course eggregiously
offend because its Bill Joy exoticism, but I think by now we can
accept some of the pauline epistles have later authors and are still
held to be useful...
Here Brian Kernighan tells the story of how grep came about.
I love how he ends the story!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTfOnGZUZDk