On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Robert Sneidar <[email protected]> wrote: > Now I know what has been bothering me about Regular Expressions all this time! >There is nothing regular about them! But I suppose it sounds better and more >inviting >than "Confounding Expressions", or "Cryptic Expressions".
You will not understand the unix mindset until you agree that the very name of "mkdir" is a bug, as no command that important should be only two letters. Dennis Ritchie has assured me that someone (Ken Thomas, I believe) agreed with me. Unix implemented a multi-user system in 64k of memory, which was actually 32k of 16 bit words. Every character counted. Thus, highly compact commands such as regexp. -- Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
