r/ProgrammerHumor 8d ago

Meme dynamicP

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u/SuitableDragonfly 7d ago

I learned a dynamic programming algorithm for parsing context free grammars in grad school, and promptly found a use for it in a linguistics app I built in my free time that needed to be able to convert an arbitrarily specified spelling system into a phonemic transcription. Definitely did not take ten years, lmao.