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> I’m older than the command line. Many people are. ^_^ > but why not arrange the words by, e.g., what sort of thing they’re about? Organisation of words by
by heresie-dabord 3y ago
> I’m older than the command line.
Many people are. ^_^
> but why not arrange the words by, e.g., what sort of thing they’re about?
Organisation of words by letter is fast indexing for an ordered set of letters.
That said, visual dictionaries exist, such as the Stoddart. [1]
[1] _ https://search.worldcat.org/title/1039974083 https://search.worldcat.org/title/1039974083
- dhosek 3y agoWhat I’m saying is that it wasn’t immediately obvious when the first dictionaries were created that this was the best way to do it.