The venerable Ispell program dates back to 1971 with the most recent update in 2...

jshprentz on Dec 4, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software...

The venerable Ispell program dates back to 1971 with the most recent update in 2015 [1]. Its Contributors files traces earlier spell checkers back to 1959 [2].

[1] https://www.cs.hmc.edu/~geoff/ispell.html

[2] http://web.mit.edu/~mkgray/jik/sipbsrc/src/ispell-3.1/Contri...