http://www.markpneyer.com/wp/2007/02/19/use-appropriate-terminology-people/ Finding Interesting, Useful, and Beautiful Mathematical Patterns in the Universe Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:40:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.markpneyer.com/wp/2007/02/19/use-appropriate-terminology-people/comment-page-1/#comment-217 markpneyer Thu, 22 Feb 2007 23:08:16 +0000 http://markpneyer.com/wp/2007/02/19/use-appropriate-terminology-people/#comment-217 A lot of UNIX systems let you search for 'regular expressions', but the things you can search for are far more complicated than regular expressions. I.e. you can search for something of the form ww, where w is a word. That language is not even context free, much less regular. A lot of UNIX systems let you search for ‘regular expressions’, but the things you can search for are far more complicated than regular expressions. I.e. you can search for something of the form ww, where w is a word. That language is not even context free, much less regular.

]]> http://www.markpneyer.com/wp/2007/02/19/use-appropriate-terminology-people/comment-page-1/#comment-216 Kevin Wed, 21 Feb 2007 23:10:45 +0000 http://markpneyer.com/wp/2007/02/19/use-appropriate-terminology-people/#comment-216 huh? language and automata theory gives me boners. and what are you ranting about? "regular" expressions like vim, etc? huh? language and automata theory gives me boners. and what are you ranting about? “regular” expressions like vim, etc?

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