wordplay mit Homebrew, apt, MacPorts installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage

Befehle und Aliase

• wordplay

Projektgeschichte

The author says the first version was written in FORTRAN for Microsoft FORTRAN 5.0 on OS/2 and could only produce two-word anagrams with a brute-force approach. It was converted to C as version 4.00 on 1993-04-30, and version 5.00 introduced a recursive approach on 1993-11-08 that removed the fixed word-count limit.

Wie es verwendet wird

The program anagrams an input string using its bundled word file, while allowing a different dictionary file to be supplied. Debian's package description preserves the same niche: a command-line anagram generator that can use language wordlists.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

wordplay is package-manager archaeology: a compact 1990s command-line word tool that survived because it is simple, portable C and useful enough for word-game and text-play workflows.

Zeitleiste

• 1991-03-29: Version 1.00 is created.
• 1993-04-30: Version 4.00 converts the program from FORTRAN to C.
• 1993-11-08: Version 5.00 introduces recursive multi-word anagram generation.
• 1996-03-20: Version 7.22 is released for Unix.

Quellen

• https://hsvmovies.com/static_subpages/personal_orig/wordplay/
• https://packages.debian.org/sid/wordplay