8 Jul
2017
8 Jul
'17
12:08 a.m.
Kids these days .... :-)
Although, I bet if you had called it a regular expression - they might have
understood. My SW professional daughter learned about regular expressions
in the CS theory course a couple of years ago. It was an "ah ha moment"
for her. I had tried to teach her 'globing' years early (unsuccessfully
at the time). But she remembered enough of the lesson it turns out.
Clem
On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 1:54 PM, ron minnich <rminnich(a)gmail.com> wrote:
by the way ... I just put a patch into a repo and my
documentation said
'the name is in glob format' and got dinged by some reviewers: "what is
glob"?
I blame our education system :-)
On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 10:38 AM Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
> This is matches my memory/was the way I learned it - ie glob was just
> short for "global" (expression).
>
> Steve / Doug any memories?
>
> On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 12:55 PM, Noel Chiappa <jnc(a)mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> > From: Ron Minnich
>>
>> > Why was it called glob? I always wondered.
>>
>> Something about global expressions.
>>
>> I recall reading about this somewhere; I tried looking in the man page:
>>
>> http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V1/man/man7/glob.7
>>
>> but it didn't go into any detail. I don't know where I could have seen
>> it,
>> alas...
>>
>> Noel
>>
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