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From: pdg@ihdev.UUCP (P. D. Guthrie)
Newsgroups: net.internat
Subject: Re: Hyphenation
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Date: Mon, 11-Nov-85 10:37:07 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 11 10:37:07 1985
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Reply-To: pdg@ihdev.UUCP (55224-P. D. Guthrie)
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>Yes, some languages are quite easy to hyphenate.  FinnAPL idiom
>handbook includes a one-liner in APL that correctly hyphenates about
>90% of Finnish words; a friend added a few more lines and got it up
>to, what I estimate to be between 99.5 and 99.9%.  
>	  __ _
I once saw a complete text editor that was a one-liner in APL :-)
Eight hundred or so symbols though.