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Spelling correction
- To: Fahlman@C.CS.CMU.EDU, BACH@SU-SCORE.ARPA
- Subject: Spelling correction
- From: Christopher Fry <cfry@OZ.AI.MIT.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jan 86 06:29 EST
- Cc: common-lisp@SU-AI.ARPA
- In-reply-to: <FAHLMAN.12177538793.BABYL@C.CS.CMU.EDU>
Spelling correction would be less necessary in
Common Lisp if the names of certain functions were
easier to spell.
For example:
rplaca
cddadr
nsublis
svref
sqrt
hash-table [the type, includes dash]
readtable [the type, no dash]
exp, expt
dpb
Fixing the source of common spelling errors would be
more profitable than adding heuristic patches like
spelling correctors.
Since the above examples are set in concrete,
a yellow pages spelling corrector may make it possible
for a part-time hacker [whose voice isn't heard on this mailing list]
to survive in the unnecessarily complex CL environment.