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Ispell Encyclopedia Article @ TheEntireWeb.com (The Entire Web) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) |
 | | Ispell has a very long history that can be traced back to a program that was originally written in 1971 in PDP-10 Assembly language by R.E.Gorin, and later ported to the C programming language and expanded by many others. |
 | | Ispell then attempts to generate a list of possible corrections and presents the incorrect word and any suggests to the user, who can then choose a correction, replace the word with a new one, leave it unchanged, or add it to the dictionary. |
 | | Ispell pioneered the idea of a programmatic interface, which was originally intended for use by emacs. |
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