Re: Stupid module and pregexp questions

[Robert Marlow]

Whoa! when I saw "Chomsky" I at first thought of the Anarchist
Linguistics Professor Noam Chomsky. I didn't realise it actually WAS
named after him. I only really knew of his Anarchist acheivements (being
an anarchist myself and all). never thought I'd come accross an
application of his Linguistics research. That's made my day, thanks!


On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 22:54, address@hidden wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 09:19:56AM -0500, Dale P. Smith wrote:
> > On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 15:58:18 -0700 (PDT)
> > Tom Lord <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> > > The chomsky hierarchy points to some platonic truth that has real and
> > > practical implications for programs.   If you stick to the lower
> > > levels of the hierarchy, you get better performance guarantees than if
> > > you don't.
> > 
> > Got any nice pointers to this chomsky hierarchy?
> 
> Well, here are two introductory links:
> 
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky
> 
> and esp:
> 
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomsky_hierarchy
> 
> as well as:
> 
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_language
> 
> If you're looking for printed references -- any good compiler 
> book should cover this hierarchy (i think both the Dragon book
> and Hopcroft/Ullman 'Introduction to Automata Theory' cover
> it).
> 
> hth Ralf Mattes
> 
> > Thanks!
> >    -Dale
> > 
> > -- 
> > Dale P. Smith
> > dsmith at actron dot com
> > 
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Robert Marlow