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Re: Spell Checking for Non European Languages, and for Conlangs

From:Nokta Kanto <red5_2@...>
Date:Tuesday, March 30, 2004, 23:38
> As for C++.... I agree with you... god knows why so many programmers >use it. *shrugs* There might be a good reason I'm missing, being a poor >hobby programmer rather than a professional.
C++ is popular because it builds on C, which was very popular because it was a clean, simple language that was speed-competitive with assembly. Most of the languages that programmers prefer over C run through an interpreter, which makes them unsuitable for many purposes. A lot of people, especially for multi-person projects, like the way C++ encourages structuring programs. My limited experience suggests that Haskell is very suited to parsing and the kind of rule-based processing that would be done for spell-checking.

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>