Holy shit, a site update! And after only 6 weeks too! Great.
This update is mainly a small program that shows how to parse huge XML files (about 3.5 GB) with C#. Recently I needed a giant word list and all word lists I found on the internet were very unsatisfactory. Therefore I decided to make my own one and the best source for words right now is probably
Wikipedia (which you can thankfully
download in XML format).
No, I didn't need that word list for a dictionary attack on some unsuspecting victim. Let's just pretend I was inspired by
this flash movie and I wanted to find out what the highest scoring Scrabble words are.
Unfortunately that Scrabble program is on hold right now because I realized that I've never actually played Scrabble (except for like 10 games with a Shareware game while I developed my program) and there were some discrepancies between Scrabble score lists available online and the results I calculated. Now I don't know if I'm wrong or if they are wrong as I'm not really familiar with Scrabble rules at this point.
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