On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 6:50 PM, Robert Sneidar slylab...@me.com wrote:
I seem to recall some noise has being made in the past that bits of Linux
source
was actually copied from Unix source, but I don't think anyone ever actually
proved
that. At one point, Novell stated that they didn't think
From the Linux Wiki:
A 2001 study of Red Hat Linux 7.1 found that this distribution contained 30
million source lines of code. Using the Constructive Cost Model, the study
estimated that this distribution required about eight thousand man-years of
development time. According to the study, if
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote:
Thanks Peter. I'm a Mac guy so not familiar with the Linux terminology,
although I probably have the utilities you mentioned since OSX is Linux at
its core.
*ack*
No.
Backwards.
It would be fair to call Linux unix at its
version of PCLinuxOS to start. But Debian is where you will end up.
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...snipThe real point of Linux however in terms of features is the shell,
and the
thing about this is that regex is like the air in the shell. Its all around
and being used all the time, and is accessible from anywhere. Any Linux
editor will support them. Geany is what I use, but Kate is
. If you want to try a distribution, get the
xfce version of PCLinuxOS to start. But Debian is where you will end up.
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EEEK! Not anymore. It's full blown UNIX since Tiger if I am not mistaken.
Bob
On Jan 2, 2013, at 11:39 AM, Peter Haworth wrote:
Thanks Peter. I'm a Mac guy so not familiar with the Linux terminology,
although I probably have the utilities you mentioned since OSX is Linux at
its core.
On Jan 2, 2013, at 6:57 AM, David C. wrote:
I think without question that they [regex] must be the most arcane, yet
powerful programming tools ever devised
APL is surely a contender here, eg:
R-1000
(~RεRº_xR)/R-1|iR
gives you all the prime numbers less than 1000
(I had to approximate the
[Sent again because the first one was too long - too many previous
posts included I guess]
Peter H, Richmond, and anyone else on Mac looking for a stepping stone
into grep, regex and Unix command line tools,
whilst nothing Peter A said was wrong, unless you are only doing
something very minor
On 1/2/13 6:55 PM, Kay C Lan wrote:
As you are on Mac I would highly recommend downloading the free Bwana:
http://www.bruji.com/bwana/
This is a simple tool that loads the 'man' pages into Safari - these
are the manual pages for the tools, basically like the LC Dictionary
entries for each
Thanks Kay, I came across regExhibit a couple of days ago and it's been my
main learning tool. Before that I was using a very similar tool at
http://www.gskinner.com/RegExr/. One thing I liked about that is that it
allows you to save regexs with descriptions of what they do
Pete
lcSQL Software
-expressions.info/quickstart.html
My thoughts were provoked in 2 ways:
1. REGEX seems useful.
2. How does one use REGEX within Livecode (and, my inevitable rider;
cross-platform) ?
Because REGEX expressions do NOT seem to be written in whatever name
the RR/LC language is going by at the moment
been deleted and placed
in an archive for subsequent use. The archive had several thousand entries.
Grep -R did it in a few minutes with one command. Pipe what you find to
something suitable, and away you go.
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Please
, also have a look at txt2regex and regexxer. Should be in the
repositories.
Peter
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Finding this one fairly thought provoking:
http://www.regular-expressions.info/quickstart.html
My thoughts were provoked in 2 ways:
1. REGEX seems useful.
2. How does one use REGEX within Livecode (and, my inevitable rider;
cross-platform) ?
Because REGEX expressions do NOT seem to be written
postings, I had a look at the
URLs various people on the
Use-List provided:
Finding this one fairly thought provoking:
http://www.regular-expressions.info/quickstart.html
My thoughts were provoked in 2 ways:
1. REGEX seems useful.
2. How does one use REGEX within Livecode (and, my inevitable
provoking:
http://www.regular-expressions.info/quickstart.html
My thoughts were provoked in 2 ways:
1. REGEX seems useful.
2. How does one use REGEX within Livecode (and, my inevitable rider;
cross-platform) ?
Now, as a mono-maniac for Livecode (i.e. I don't use any other programming
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