Anna Wiggins
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* Use uppercase letters. * Print number of iterations it took to reach a steady state. * Add a --infinite mode that loops forever, and only prints the final outcome. * [WIP] Start with a random alphabet.
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# Alphabetter - procedurally improving the alphabet
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Inspired by @rfglenn's [tweet](https://twitter.com/rfglenn/status/1378555751870820354?s=21) about alphabetizing the alphabet,
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Alphabetter is a shitpost that "improves" the alphabet by sorting the letters lexicographically by their canonical
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(American English) spellings.
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But it doesn't stop there. It then sorts the "new" alphabet by *its own* order, and then sorts THAT alphabet, iteratively, with
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the goal of finding a "steady state", that is, an alphabet that is already alphabetized. (according to its own order)
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This happens after only 3 iterations, yielding the "better" alphabet:
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```
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rahbdwyuieflmnsxcqgjkoptvz
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```
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## Usage
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If for some reason you want to run this code, just do
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```
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go build alphabetter.go
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```
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with nearly any version of golang installed. Then execute it with
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```
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./alphabetter
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```
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To loop forever, run with `--infinite`.
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