Automatic Spelling Corrections On Github 105
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An anonymous reader writes "Github projects may be seeing a different kind of contributor than normal: a small bot is now crawling through projects, contributing spelling corrections. It builds on top of the github API and existing documentation style-checking code. Future directions for the project look beyond spelling mistakes and at automated bug fixing on a large scale."
#!/user/bin/pearl (Score:5, Funny)
I wonder if this bot will do as well as every HR department out there posting "pearl" and "unique admin" positions
Re:Yeah, I'm sure... (Score:5, Funny)
Oppressive autocorrection. (Score:5, Funny)
Clbuttic overaction, in my opinion. This buttbuttination of our writing by computers is out of hand. I don't know if my consbreastution can take it...
Re:What Could Possibly Go Wrong (Score:4, Funny)
Yeah, I did notice that (pull request), but I secretly love the idea of a braindead iphone type spell corrector running around automatically changing 'strcpy' to 'stripy', or 'unlk' to 'unlink'. And then thinking you can fix it with even more complex regexps.