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From: forsyth@cal... forsyth@cal...
Subject: [9fans] Brian Kernighan?
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 10:16:58 GMT

see  pp 208-13 of The UNIX Programming Environment by B W Kernighan and Rob Pike, and the end of the chapter for credits and references.

the Cornell PL/1 compiler used a similar approach to
do spelling correction on keywords as part of a broader
attempt to repair all obvious errors in the given program; the results
were amusing if not enlightening, as they so often are with AI.