It's 2010, not the 'early days of Unix'. Yes there is a connection, a useful one, if you are sitting in front of a PDP-8.<p><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.functional/msg/84763c6d9185178b?dmode=source&#38;hl=en" rel="nofollow">http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.functional/msg/8476...</a><p><a href="http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247#comment-3085" rel="nofollow">http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247#comment-3085</a>