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Archive for September 15th, 2006

Back to the Future: On the Terms “NFA,” “DFA,” and “Regular Expression”
September 15th, 2006 3:11pm JST (5 years, 5 months ago)
In my previous post I dug up messages someone wrote almost 10 years ago, and in some places challenged what they wrote. In writing the post, I mostly wanted to document the thread that created the somewhat-famous "now you have two problems" quote, and the challenges and rebuttals I included are a bit unfair of [...]
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Source of the famous “Now you have two problems” quote
September 15th, 2006 1:44pm JST (5 years, 5 months ago)
As I mentioned in my previous post, my book was just reviewed on Slashdot. One thing that struck me in reading all the resulting comments was the (several different copies of an) apparently famous quote that goes something like: It's apparently quite well known, so it floors me that this is the first I've seen [...]
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