We are't dead yet, and a couple of our approximate peers are actively seeking terms in the white house. One of them having tested positive for Covid, hoping he will recover.
On Sat, Oct 3, 2020 at 10:02 AM Michael or Penny Novack < stepbystepf...@comcast.net> wrote: > On 10/2/2020 10:49 PM, David Carlson wrote: > > ....... including (especially, > > with examples) exactly what regex means to those of us that went to > school > > before that term existed,......... > > ROFLOL ---- in which case you are older than I am and I'm in my mid 70's > > It's not exactly a new term, dates to the 50's in mathematics. OK, math > tends to run ahead of application, but unix and it's standard library > dates to the late 70's and the "standard library of utilities" began > with the find/mach replace utilities using "regular expressions" to > express what was to be matched. "Regex" is simply the usual abbreviation. > > The earliest practical use with computers would have been late 60's (in > QED), just after my uni days. But SNOBOL used its own matching strings > so didn't make a comeback till unix. > > 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.
