[TUHS] Origins of globbing

[George Michaelson]

yea well I wasn't born until 1961 and anything before then is in black
and white, grainly film, and probably has a cowboy gun in it.

historical fiction is my thing. spelling isn't. you mean Kleene?

On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 10:23 AM Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Oct 6, 2020, 6:19 PM Jon Steinhart <jon at fourwinds.com> wrote:
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>> George Michaelson writes:
>> > Regular expressions as a field of study goes back a long way.  SNOBOL
>> > was 62-67 and Bell labs.
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>> > 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
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>> Actually, this goes back to Kleen in 1956, followed by Thompson in 1968.
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> Kleen closures are a thing I learned about in school :)
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>> Jon