From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] Spell - was tmac: Move macro diagnostics away from
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 13:58:26 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1711221351390.780@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15d26202-091f-0b04-146c-79f53f3aad23@gmail.com>
On Tue, 21 Nov 2017, Will Senn wrote:
> On a historical note, I am curious if anyone on the list remembers much
> about the development of the first spell checkers in Unix? Good 'ol
> remarkably accurate wikipedia suggests that it is descended from SAIL's
> DEC PDP-10 version. Who wrote the first standalone tool for unix and did
> they, as the wikip article says, base it on the DEC PDP-10 version
> (surely it would have been c, not assembly)? I see the man page for it
> in v6, but no executable.
There was a shell script that split the words on white space and sorted
them by occurrence; the least-used ones were most likely spelling misteaks
(unless you were a consistent mis-speller, which regretfully some people
are).
No idea where I heard about it... Was it "Programming Pearls"?
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-21 16:08 Doug McIlroy
2017-11-21 20:41 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-21 21:48 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-21 23:11 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-21 23:43 ` Will Senn
2017-11-22 0:13 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-22 2:58 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2017-11-22 0:38 Noel Chiappa
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