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A comment on Canada's Humble Space Telescope.

Re:Canada's Humble Space Telescope by trothamel on Monday January 14, 2019 @04:28PM (#18906691)
As a minor note, MOST's software was architected by Henry Spencer, who wrote the original UNIX regex library.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Spencer

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Re:Canada's Humble Space Telescope by maxxxxx on Monday January 14, 2019 @05:58PM (#18907376)
I would be curious about how regex was designed and developed. It's such a cool and not very intuitive to come up with thing.
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Re:Canada's Humble Space Telescope by diplocorp on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @04:58AM (#18910008)
I mean, regular expressions have existed in discrete maths for decades right?
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Re:Canada's Humble Space Telescope by maxxxxx on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @11:26AM (#18912309)
I don't know. Is that where the inspiration came from?
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