SnoPy 0.1 - SNOBOL pattern matching for Python

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Tim,

> All the relevant portions of finite automata theory were well-known
> then.  The fascination with trying to *use* regexps started (AFAICT)
> with Unix

AIUI Ken Thompson implemented them in ed on their early Unix system,
although it might not have been named by then, by generating machine
instructions for the PDP/7.

All this fuss about JIT...  Only the name is new  ;-)


Ralph.