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Most word processors will pick up things like repeated words, misspellings, and some grammar issues (e.g. sentence fragments; the wrong form of there), but beyond that, they aren't going to be able to catch much else. Things like Lint and FxCop (for .Net) are able be more prescriptive because there are fewer rules in the languages they deal with than in English.

Writing is a far more subjective endeavor than development. A compiler can only deal with its finite set of rules, but a reader can interpret a much wider range of styles.

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