[TUHS] Spell - was tmac: Move macro diagnostics away from
Dave Horsfall
dave at horsfall.org
Wed Nov 22 12:58:26 AEST 2017
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"?
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