Programming challenge : spelling corrector

Mark Wieder mwieder at ahsoftware.net
Tue Jun 19 14:53:26 EDT 2007


All-

While I've never particularly liked lines-of-code metrics as benchmarks of 
programming efficiency (tends to reward obfuscation by cramming too much 
code into single lines), here's an interesting look at coding a spelling 
corrector in Python and then in several alternative languages for 
comparison.

What caught my eye, of course, is that there's no xtalk example. Anyone care 
to take a stab at this?

Python:
http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html

perl:
http://www.riffraff.info/2007/5/20/a-spell-corrector-in-perl6-part-3

-- 
 Mark Wieder
 mwieder at ahsoftware.net 






More information about the use-livecode mailing list