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- From: alien@acheron.amigans.gen.nz (Ross Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Pattern Matching for Spelling Correction
- Message-ID: <alien.02pg@acheron.amigans.gen.nz>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 13:29:31 GMT+12
- References: <1993Jan7.054651.25174@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA> <alien.02g6@acheron.amigans.gen.nz> <1993Jan16.021454.27242@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan16.021454.27242@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse) writes:
- >In article <alien.02g6@acheron.amigans.gen.nz>, alien@acheron.amigans.gen.nz (Ross Smith) writes:
- >> In article <726524557snz@panache.demon.co.uk> raph@panache.demon.co.uk (Raphael mankin) writes:
- >>> In article <1993Jan7.054651.25174@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA> tmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA writes:
- >>>> [...something...]
- >>> Sorry to be so short tempered, but does no-one ever read the
- >>> journals?
- >
- >>> CommACM Oct 1992 Vol 35 No 10. pp74-91
- >>> and a whole host of others. Try your university library.
- >
- >> Sorry to be so short tempered, but try to remember that not everyone
- >> is at a university or has access to journals. Some of us
- >> occasionally work in the real world.
- >
- >Perhaps you've forgotten, being out in the real world and out of touch
- >with where knowledge is actually being advanced[%], but most university
- >libraries will let people not directly part of the university community
- >look at their collection. Municipal libraries almost invariably will.
-
- (1) What about those of us who live 100 km from the nearest university?
-
- (2) Municipal libraries "almost invariably" don't carry specialised technical
- journals. You won't find anything deeper than "Byte" in a public library,
- except maybe in a handful of very large cities in the US and Europe.
-
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- ...... Ross Smith (Wanganui, NZ) ...... alien@acheron.amigans.gen.nz ......
- "I blame you for the moonlit sky and the dream that died with the Eagle's flight
- I blame you for the moonlit nights when I wonder why are the seas still dry
- Don't blame me, sleeping satellite" (Tasmin Archer)
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