[TUHS] Origins of globbing
Jon Steinhart
jon at fourwinds.com
Wed Oct 7 09:21:34 AEST 2020
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
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