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Yes, for ~20 years on Ubuntu. Nice startup time, and just works -- especially if all you use are terminals and browser windows. Things like firefox look a little out of place, now …

Reading about this and similar techniques in Programming Pearls (Second Edition) by Jon Bentley left the younger me spellbound. Similar to the evolution of linkers up to mold.

The is also "A tour of C++" from the same author, which might be a good start. Take care.

Well, it is not only German -- Wikipedia has a nice map: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_mark

An upcoming version, that fixes font rendering problems, is mentioned here: http://groups.google.com/group/issh/msg/f16d119aa00d3570

Yes, and "Programming Pearls" has a nice chapter (13.8) on how doug mcilroy fit the spell dict into less than 64k ( http://code.google.com/p/unix-spell/ ). That site also has a pap…