Re: Vocab Lists? (Was: Emergency! Shoebox not working!)

On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 03:31:03PM +0200, Henrik Theiling wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Rik Roots <rikroots@...> writes:
> > Gevey used to carry its vocabulary on the web as alphabetical lists in
> > html files. But I've abandoned that idea, and started developing a
> > proper database using MySQL, with PerlDBI to generate the html lists
> > on the fly. This should allow me to do more than just display an
> > alphabetical list of words, such as searching, and grouping words
> > together on a page by their root, etc.
>
> I usually use Lisp.  It can easily be imported into C++ with a very
> simple tool and, more importantly, I can afterwards decide on
> computing or modifying the final lexicon entries, because data
> structures and programs have the same syntax in Lisp.  E.g. in Tyl
> Sjok, I implemented `phonetics modules' by this (the words are mere
> sequences of numbers in the raw lexicon and the phone sequences are
> then computed upon loading the lexicon).
Ooh, most interesting! I was thinking of using Lisp for it just last night.
The problem is that all I know of Lisp was a little tiny bit I learned from
Hofstadter's _Metamagical Themas_, and I didn't even finish the chapter.

Also, I've been thinking of perhaps polishing up my C++ skillz and writing a
portable, open-source clone of Phono. I'd probably write it as a console app
originally but then add Qt support (non-commercial Qt is now gratis for
Windows too!) But I'm having trouble figuring out what features to include,
how to model everything, and how close to Phono to make it.

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Eric Christopherson | Rakko