alphabetter/readme.md

# Alphabetter - procedurally improving the alphabet

Inspired by @rfglenn's [tweet](https://twitter.com/rfglenn/status/1378555751870820354?s=21) about alphabetizing the alphabet,
Alphabetter is a shitpost that "improves" the alphabet by sorting the letters lexicographically by their canonical
(American English) spellings.

But it doesn't stop there. It then sorts the "new" alphabet by *its own* order, and then sorts THAT alphabet, iteratively, with
the goal of finding a "steady state", that is, an alphabet that is already alphabetized. (according to its own order)

This happens after only 3 iterations, yielding the "better" alphabet:

```
rahbdwyuieflmnsxcqgjkoptvz
```

## Usage

If for some reason you want to run this code, just do

```
go build alphabetter.go
```

with nearly any version of golang installed. Then execute it with

```
./alphabetter
```

To loop forever, run with `--infinite`. While in infinite mode, only the starting alphabet and final alphabet are printed.

To start with a random alphabet (on each iteration), run with `--random`.