On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 06:17:04PM -0700, Stephen Satchell wrote:
> I don't know about others, but when I run into the same situation,
> instead of saying "just Google it" I provide a few links to get the
> asker a start.

Who said "just Google it"?

> Back in the beginning, before the Internet, before ARPAnet, I would
> provide a few references for the person on a quest to look up in the
> library.  Working on the theory that "give a person a fish, they eat for
> a day; teach them to fish and they eat forever."

Something like mentioning not one but two string similarity algorithms 
by name, stating that there are many others, and providing a link to get 
started? What a good idea, if only I had thought of doing something like 
that... 


-- 
Steven
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