[TUHS] Origins of globbing

[Warner Losh]

On Tue, Oct 6, 2020, 6:19 PM Jon Steinhart <jon at fourwinds.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

Kleen closures are a thing I learned about in school :)


Jon
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