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to: Bob Lawrence
from: Paul Edwards
date: 1995-10-14 11:44:06
subject: `Smart` Compilers

Ro> That's given me a great idea! I am working on the IDE for
Ro> MoonRock. If it comes across something it doesn't understand,
Ro> it will suggest keywords which are close to that spelling,
Ro> using an algorithm similar to soundex. eg: "Rowan Crowe",
Ro> "Rowen Crowe", "Rowan Crow" all produce the same
soundex code. 

BL>   I'm not sure that would help much. Writing code, it's not the sound
BL> (most of it doesn't even have vowels), it's transposed letters or
BL> things like StrLng instead of StrsLong.

The idea of soundex algorithms is to pick up mistyped characters,
not find out which words are pronounced the same in a Yorkshire
dialect of English.  BFN.  Paul.
@EOT:

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