Re: [Spoiler, no Solution] 'Expert' #25 (acrostic puzzle generator)

Greg Bacon <[email protected]> Mon, 11 Oct 2004 08:15:40 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.qotw.discuss
Organization Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
In message <[email protected]>,
    Rod Adams writes:

: [...]
: Speedy anagram generation is not obvious. By far, the fastest 
: implementation I've seen (and I've looked) is the wordplay program, 
: written in C by Evan Criswell : 
: http://hsvmovies.com/static_subpages/personal/wordplay/
: Ron Coscorrosa has done a translation of this into Perl: 
: http://coscorrosa.com/programs/cgi/anagram/

I worked with Evans a few years ago.  I remember a few times when he
walked into my office pleased about some performance improvement or
other enhancement he'd made to wordplay.

I've cc'd Evans to let him know about the mention.

Greg