I haven't a clue this was like 99-01, it wasn't just edit distance algorithm but also all the UI code surrounding it and optimizing things for learning a foreig

I haven't a clue this was like 99-01, it wasn't just edit distance algorithm but also all the UI code surrounding it and optimizing things for learning a foreign language. Basically it was a quiz program in (e.g.) German which compared the student's answer to the proper answer and then generated suggestions when appropriate. We did a lot of tweaking of that code, iterating through versions starting with an attempt to just port some C code and onward - I was pretty green at that time and it wasn't a full time job, so it's not like implementing edit distance took you know, 70 man weeks...