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/
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