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One of the things that got me intrigued by Unix was an early 1980s(ish) Byte article which walked through building a (trivial example, not the "real" one) spell
by eichin 2y ago
One of the things that got me intrigued by Unix was an early 1980s(ish) Byte article which walked through building a (trivial example, not the "real" one) spell checker out of a split/sort/comm pipeline, something like 7 commands? 8-bit PCs didn't have anything like that, and yet it didn't look like it needed that much sophistication...
- MarkSweep 2y agoOne a similar note, there is this period video where Brian Kernighan shows how to construct a spell checker using a UNIX shell one-liner: https://youtu.be/tc4ROCJYbm0?t=4m56s https://youtu.be/tc4ROCJYbm0?t=4m56s