[TUHS] Origins of globbing

[George Michaelson]

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 at 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
>