7 Oct
2020
7 Oct
'20
1:11 a.m.
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(a)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