Re: ANN: Code Spell - source code spell checker
From: Arthur J. O'Dwyer (ajo_at_nospam.andrew.cmu.edu)
Date: 01/29/05
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Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 00:12:09 -0500 (EST)
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Brendan Murphy wrote:
>
> True North Software Corporation announces the immediate
> release of Code Spell 1.0.
[...]
> http://www.truenorthsoftware.com/Code_Spell/CodeSpell.html
Spam is bad. But I thought this spam was double-funny, because if
you actually go to the site and look at the screenshot they provide,
you'll see that it is a marvelous display of the software /not working/.
Not a single one of the highlighted words is spelled incorrectly;
in fact, the software suggests changing "Harbison and Steele" to
"Harrison and Steele"! The checker doesn't know that __STDC__ is
a perfectly idiomatic "word," either.
This does seem like an interesting project to try to do right,
though; does anyone know of any halfway-successful attempts?
-Arthur
-- "Chomsky was the worst thing ever to happen to linguistics" ---Minsky
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