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Subject: Simple Icon programming challenge...
From: Steve Wampler <swampler@noao.edu>
To: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 07:51:31 -0700
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(This is probably a good string scanning exercise for newer
Icon programmers...)
Yesterday there were some news reports of a finding from an
English University on just how well most of us read. In
particular, they found that people could read nearly as fast
if the interior letters (all but the first and last) of
words were scrambled, provided people tried to read it fast
and didn't spend time focussing on each word.
For example, one scrambling of the above paragraph is:
Ysaeterdy trhee wree smoe nwes roetprs of a fdinnig form an
Eingslh Usnivetriy on jsut how wlel msot of us raed. In
paarticulr, tehy fnoud taht ppeloe cloud raed nalery as fsat
if the ionterir lrettes (all but the fsirt and lsat) of
wdors wree smcreabld, perovidd pleope tierd to raed it fsat
and ddin't snped tmie fsocunsig on ecah wrod.
This actually may have profound implications on the ability
of spam-blocking software to perform properly.
Not that I want to promote spam, but...
Write an Icon (or Unicon!) program that scrambles input
using to this approach. It would be nice if it produced
random scramblings (where repeated runs of the program on
the same input produce different results).
--
Steve Wampler -- swampler@noao.edu
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota
monax materiam possit materiari?