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Originally Posted by kcmay
Software has bugs, books have typos. It happens
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great quote there.
indeed, as a software developer you're correct in that software has bugs. But one thing it has that should be of help to writers is something called a compiler. A compiler translates your software written in high level algorithmic language into low-level machine language. It can't prevent bugs arising from bad logic, but it ensure that everything written down can be checked against certain rules.
One of these checks is that of typos: it simply warns you of possible typos and won't compile further while you don't correct it. It's indeed a spell checker, except it doesn't allow you to "publish" while you don't get them right.
