<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.8.1"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Fri, 2006-28-04 at 17:35 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> Reminds me of a story of /. a while back - some linguist had spent 2000 man hours writing a Windows program that would count how many English words could be properly spelled using full element names in the periodic table as letters. 2000 hours! It was all terribly complicated and confusing, and took several hours to run </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <PRE> </PRE> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> Then some /. fanboy used /usr/share/dict/words and a perl one-liner to do the same thing in 3.5 seconds </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> And, naturally, Perl isn't available under Windows. And the words file is in such a bizarre and obscure format that it can't be used under Windows. And certainly isn't available from about a billion different places. If you're going to critique a platform, how about not making shit up? <TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> -- Michael T. Richter Email: ttmrichter@gmail.com, mtr1966@hotpop.com MSN: ttmrichter@hotmail.com, mtr1966@hotmail.com; YIM: michael_richter_1966; AIM: YanJiahua1966; ICQ: 241960658; Jabber: mtr1966@jabber.cn "I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot [...]. I think the world is being much helped by the suffering of the poor people." --Mother Theresa </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BODY> </HTML>