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A comment on A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engineering (2008).

Re:A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engine... by personjerry on Thursday December 24, 2015 @02:27PM (#10789312)
But it seems like to me the "progress" mentioned is more in the hardware than the software, in contrast to the emphasis on Software Engineering from the title.
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Re:A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software Engine... by ihm on Thursday December 24, 2015 @10:03PM (#10790271)
We still could be stuck writing assembly on super fast hardware. Programming languages' UI has definitely improved, enabled to be sure by hardware (as in his Python/Perl example).
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