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Steven Merrill

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  1. Python to Scala 2.7: Check Your Spelling

    Last time out, I talked about the benefits of Scala, and why I'm looking at Scala and Lift.

    In that spirit, I spent some time last weekend converting Peter Norvig's simple Python spell-checker to Scala. I didn't do this conversion alone; I got some great answers from Daniel Sobral, Daniel Spiewak and finally David Winslow on Stack Overflow. David provided the answer I needed for the best way to implement the matching function in Scala 2.7.

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