Comment by boredguy8

You're missing the point. "Growth of the language" wasn't the problem for spell-check, it was the size of the language combined with limited space. Computational breakthroughs solved that problem. The parent to my post implied that solving the 'space' problem in a different way (i.e. by having more space) somehow harmed software engineering, which it hasn't. Ergo, the suggestion that the web is outpacing computing and bandwidth all the more supports my point, since that problem will be persistent.