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"!@#$%^, we need a phoneme-based name-matcher but the programmer who built it in assembler retired years ago!" (Trans: Doug, we need you to write a fuzzy ILP system in Mercury)*

Two words: code reuse.

Various soundex algorithms are readily available in lots of languages. Even without them, implementing one shouldn't take more than a couple of hours... this guy seems to be more of a salesman than a programmer.



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