Noah, the ultimate dictionary project

"Let them be open, we want to be FREE."

This page exists so that you can jump in if you want to help developing the best dictionary program ever (mind you: it's not even close).

At this time the source code is very simple. It contains of a converter, that takes definitions from WordNet 1.6 files and turns them into Palm *.pdb database doing some compression. There is a major entry barrier: it's written in LISP (I use Franz's free evaulation version running under Linux). My first implementation was a horrible mix of TCL and C code. I wanted to have one one program to handle that and I wanted to learn LISP so I ended up recoding this in LISP. LISP is great but it lacks standards in a few important areas (like regular expresions) and is not that great when you want to manipulate strings. I hate perl so I guess the middle ground would be Python, but I don't have the time to recode my converter. It does its job.

Make your choice

Everyone
  learn about Noah
  read the news
  read the FAQ
  dont't miss the manual
  see whom to thank for Noah
  see project's page
Developers
  read dev introduction to Noah
  read about plans for the future
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