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Wow! So, this is your systematic scribble on paper?
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Sandeep Mewara wrote: So, this is your systematic scribble on paper?
We didn't have fancy GUI for writing code in the old days. Yes I use notepad to organize my thoughts. I still do it today.
I was writing C/C++ code using text editors such as vim all the way up until around the year ~2000 I don't remember the exact year. I didn't start using Microsoft Windows until sometime around there. I had a few Windows machines but I wasn't writing software for Microsoft yet.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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hats off! 
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So do I notepad++ these days
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Please, tell us more about this magic notepad of yours?
I mean, did you really already have a list of synonyms for "warning of danger"? It seems quite a specific phrase...
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Hmmm,
I use a combination of physical unabridged dictionaries and some online tools.
musefan wrote: It seems quite a specific phrase...
I turn to digital tools when I get stuck solving these cryptic crossword puzzles. Some of them I wrote myself, but these days... the online tools are getting *very* good.
The second entry is here for the definition:
Onelook Reverse Search: Warning Danger[^]
Some additional online tools that I use:
National Puzzlers' League.[^]
https://www.dcode.fr/anagram-generator[^]
I am working in my spare time writing a CCC Solver using the dictionaries provided by the National Puzzlers' League. I don't expect it to be completed for over a year... it's alot of work and I am only working on it in my spare time. I am currently trying to import all of Wiktionary[^] into a SQLite database and that's not even completed yet.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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Good luck. Keep us updated on any significant progress.
I have considered making one myself, but I know it will end up getting shelved because of the difficulties in setting up a good source database.
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Yeah,
musefan wrote: I have considered making one myself
enwiktionary is a 6GB uncompressed XML file. Let me know if you need any of the dictionaries, I think I've got all of the legal dictionaries. There are some others... but I would need to pay a licence to get access to them and would not be able to distribute them.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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musefan wrote: list of synonyms for "warning of danger"?
The only "warning of danger" with 7 letters that I could come up with was 'portent' (which was not on @Randor's list), but it didn't help.
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Well done! I was nowhere near that!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Thanks. Off day for you. I know the feeling - no clue with almost all the CCCs for me. 
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I had ME and I, but for players I only thought of SIDE or TEAM. Not that it mattered, as I would never have got that word.
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@Randor had it in his word list. If you give me the phrase and say find related one word - I will struggle.
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Hi All,
In the grand tradition suggested by Mr Vilimos (Nagy!) I have updated my User name.
Hopefully last orders will be soon & I can get back to Work.
(mutter, mutter, Covid)
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Well, 10pm at the latest!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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After which he can crowd into the local off-licence along with every other punter looking for an evening digestive.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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You've got those idiots in Toronto as well? Why does this not surprise me? 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Thanks for clearing things up, we would not want to think you were still at work doing who-knows-what 
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Overdosing on gin, most likely.
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OK, I was not asking about obvious news 
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I'll ask him
veni bibi saltavi
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Hey Nagy, nice to hear from you 
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Nagster in the house!
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