Jumble.org
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Jumble
Description
History:
I've always hated scrambled words. Everyone in my family was better at them than me. I decided that there has to be a better way, so in 1982 I wrote my first word descrambler in Applesoft (tm) Basic on an Apple ][ computer. It was very slow, and it took longer to solve one six letter word than for my friends to finish four or five.
The code was modestly improved several times, and was ported to the MS-DOS environment in about 1987. It still wasn't very good, but at least it didn't require 4 floppy switches during execution!
The "Third generation" word descrambler was written in c under SunOS Unix in 1991 as part of a programming contest. Shortly thereafter, the crossword feature was added. Well, really it wasn't added; it was a separate executable.
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