Thank you Michael, I see in your reference that regex came into general use in certain computer circles at approximately the same time that I was learning about the radical new analog computing devices called Operational Amplifiers from their inventor at Northwestern University. At that time there were few computer science classes for undergraduates, and I only had time for one of them in my schedule...
On Sat, Oct 3, 2020 at 6:02 AM Michael Hendry <hendry.mich...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 3 Oct 2020, at 11:46, Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote: > > > > On Sat, Oct 03, 2020 at 08:28:43PM +1000, Liz Dodd wrote: > >> On Fri, 02 Oct 2020 23:02:05 -0400 > >> Derek Atkins <de...@ihtfp.com> wrote: > >> > >>> You must be in your 60s or 70s (or older) if you think you were > >>> around before the term regex was created. > >> > >> Ok, we're outed. > >> > > Quite a lot older I think, I'm in my 70s and have known about REs all > > of my professional life (software engineer) and I suspect they were > > around before I came across them. :-) > > > The concept of a regular expression was ntroduced in the 1950s - see > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression > > Michael > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > -- David Carlson _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
