On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, Darren Johnson wrote:

> >Actually I don't have enough time these days... thats why I cheated and 
> >only spend about 15 seconds on the whole thing.  I just typed in the 
> >following line into my Destop machine that is running Linux and pointed it 
> >to a file that has 45000+ words in it.
> >
> >grep -i '^c\?[GHJKMNPQRTV-Z][0-9CA-HJKMNPQRTV-Z]\{3\}$' words |perl -e 
> >while(<>){ chop; print $_." ";}'
> >
> >...so I actually spent a whole lot less time than most other people that 
> >have been sitting around thinking about 4 letter words that will come up.
> 
> Dude....you rock!  I almost wept openly in laughter at this.
> 
> 
> 
> >PS... too much time on my hands would be if I made a program for the 
> >website that listed the words that would be upcoming fairly soon, and 
> >their predicted date of posting.
> 
> Then I guess we can expect to see it implemented by no later than the 23rd 
> of May?  :)

Sounds to me like he may have it done later this evening - that is if he
hasn't already finished it.....  :-)

Jim.

Jim Scotti
Lunar & Planetary Laboratory
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721 USA                 http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~jscotti/