#Text database
03-May-93 16:44:41
Sb: #47504-#Text database
Fm: Katherine Cochrane 71216,1271
To: Syndesis 76004,1763
John,
Have you ever tried programming with SNOBOL/4? More specifically with SPITBOL
(a dialect of SNOBOL/4)? You can make data do all kinds of weird and wonderful
things with that language — I know people who have built reverse dictionaries
(words spelled backwards) using it, and other exotic stuff. It's not even very
difficult to learn. Linguists love it — nobody else seems to know what to do
with it, but it might be what you're looking for.
OTOH, what you actually may need is simply a full-text database. Folio has a
nice one, and there are lots of others around.
Kathy <<– The One-Off CD Shop MidSouth, Inc.