Fw: Type->Re: [Seekers] Punishment

Brian Dean bridean@worldnet.att.net
Wed, 4 Mar 1998 22:38:06 -0500 (00889090686, 19980305033041.AAA11594@briandea)


MICHAEL

> MWF A belief in an internal state, accessible only to the individual.
Should be -> A belief _IS_ an internal . . .etc. Need a smarter spell checker. BRIDEAN Speaking as a computer programmer this is not likely to happen. The way a spell checker works is it takes a word and sees if it exists in a list of words that the spell checker is using. Since "in" is an actual word it won't see it as a spelling error. There are however, grammer checking programs that may or may not catch such an error. It all depends on how the grammer checking program is written. It might be interesting to get someone actually knowledgable about such things (like Till) to try various grammer checking programs and see how well they really do. My suspicion (I don't use a spell checker) is that they are not all that good. Plus they take up a lot of processing time.