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		jrockway on June 8, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Spellchecker Used to Be a Major Feat of Software... Thanks for this link. Much more interesting than the article.

dangoldin on June 9, 2008 [–]

Definitely. I enjoy reading about these data structures/algorithms.

Seems a lot of these cool things came out in the 80s due to the limits of memory/computational speed.

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