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04/09/08 19:05
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#153075 - Oh ... for the good old days ...
Responding to: ???'s previous message
Once upon a time, engineers and programmers could read and write, and those who did so, learned to spell by reading. Now that people aren't required to spell correctly, and to construct sentences and paragraphs correctly, all bets are off!

This whole thing about spell-checking is just for people to DUMB to realize that programs are not written with spelling and syntax that's detecable by a spell-checking algorithm useable for checking standard English prose.

This whole business of spell-checking code is just ridiculous! Until all the variable names and function names, and other labels are known you can't possibly do a rational automated spell-check. Once you've checked and verified and subsequently tabulated all of them, you can't automate the process, and, once you've done that, you no longer need to spell-check it!

What programmer, or, for that matter, what human, is so unsophisticated that he can't figure that much out?

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TopicAuthorDate
Spell check using Keil            01/01/70 00:00      
   What ?            01/01/70 00:00      
   What exactly are you spell checking for?            01/01/70 00:00      
      Well...            01/01/70 00:00      
         Danger of spell checking            01/01/70 00:00      
         wow that's interesting            01/01/70 00:00      
            Oops!            01/01/70 00:00      
               Oh ... for the good old days ...            01/01/70 00:00      
                  Another Oops!            01/01/70 00:00      
                     True enough ...            01/01/70 00:00      
                        not the case for me            01/01/70 00:00      
                  Where spell-checking could be useful            01/01/70 00:00      
                  I agree entirely...            01/01/70 00:00      
   the problem with spellcheckers is ...            01/01/70 00:00      
      Spellcheckeritis            01/01/70 00:00      
   sure, I do it all te time ....            01/01/70 00:00      
      We all screw up from time to time, but ...            01/01/70 00:00      
         Useful spell checking            01/01/70 00:00      
            be creative!            01/01/70 00:00      
               To be fair...            01/01/70 00:00      
                  Thanks            01/01/70 00:00      

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