Re: [SPOILER] Much less crappy acrostic program

Mark Jason Dominus <[email protected]> Thu, 14 Oct 2004 17:34:06 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.qotw.discuss
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> The big change is that it now tries the possible words in order by how
> much they resemble the pool of letters that remain to be allocated.

It occurs to me that the program might also do better if it gave a
bonus to words that contain hard letters like Q and X.  At present it
has a lot of trouble solving quotations that contain an X.