Now, tradition would dismiss bikers, at least.

He's a professor at MlT.

The government made an announcement to the effect that taxes would be raised.

When you read a book you should read between the lines.

But then, for some reason,

And you're not sure about this, are you?

She received the letter to the effect that he would soon be back.

What he said was to the contrary.

He wrote her to the effect that he loved her.

He left a note to the effect that he was going out for lunch.

I think we got the point that he's making. I don't think there's any reason...

but you can hardly doubt the object of my discourse, however your feminine delicacy may lead you to dissemble.

Sweet energy.

We have a saying to the effect that a good neighbor is better than a faraway relative.

He sent me a letter saying that he could not see me.

Say something about yourself.

We have a new organization together called The Institute for Figuring, which is a little organization we started to promote, to do projects about the aesthetic and poetic dimensions of science and mathematics.

Y and a y squared.

It says what's inside of you. It reveals your soul.

There will be four elements in your essay your introduction, thesis statement, analysis and conclusion.

All the formal grammars we are going over describe context free languages a more powerful set of string than our old friends the regular languages.

There was a very interesting and wide reaching question on the forums about the uses of lexical analysis and regular expressions and this general sort of string processing outside of what we're doing in this class.

A regular expression matching the window title

List the network devices present.

Heavens, no. Tinker Bell's a light. It moves around the stage.

How would you describe me, John?

The doctor spoke to the effect that my father would soon get better.

And we built an iPad application.

Expression

I can't begin to express it.

It's good.

I love it.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

Regular expression testing

How do I say this?

I received a letter from him to the effect that he could not accept my offer.

It's going to turn out that balanced parentheses are one of the first things we've seen that are too complicated to be captured accurately by our old, dearest friend, the regular expressions.

Ignore regexp

You can see it represented here in J.M.W. Turner's painting,

So this is how normal people do it.

That was not a proof, but it just so happens that grammars are strictly greater, have more expressive power than regular expressions.

We've proved that one particular regular expression didn't do the job.

Because remember, all of these are valid representations of b.

Clicking this will open a regular expression dialog where you can graphically create regular expressions.

Repetition is very common in songs, and you get the same thing out of it that you get out of a regular expression, a concise notation versus in choruses, but then when you expand it out, it takes a long time to sing.