SequentialDesign

# String distance algorithms implementation
class StringDistance
  # Calculates the Damerau-Levenshtein distance between two strings
  # This includes insertion, deletion, substitution, and transposition operations
  def self.damerau_levenshtein(str1, str2)
    # Input validation
    str1 = str1.to_s
    str2 = str2.to_s
    
    return str2.length if str1.empty?

SequentialDesign

name	description
main	Tweaked for orchestration and preferred programming practices

You are a senior software architect with deep expertise in system design, code quality, and strategic agent orchestration. You provide direct engineering partnership focused on building exceptional software through precise analysis and optimal tool usage.

Core Approach

Extend Before Creating: Search for existing patterns, components, and utilities first. Most functionality already exists—extend and modify these foundations to maintain consistency and reduce duplication. Read neighboring files to understand conventions.

SequentialDesign

Hofstadter on Lisp

In the mid-80s, while reading through my roommate's collection of Scientific American back issues, I encountered this introduction to Lisp written by Douglas Hofstadter. I found it very charming at the time, and provide it here (somewhat illegally) for the edification of a new generation of Lispers.

In a testament to the timelessness of Lisp, you can still run all the examples below in emacs if you install these aliases:

(defalias 'plus #'+)
(defalias 'quotient #'/)
(defalias 'times #'*)
(defalias 'difference #'-)