This is a copy of the basic scrabble engine I wrote several years
ago on the Acorn archimedes; however if you compile it with -TTY
it will play from a dumb terminal.  It requires that the human
manage the bag of tiles and the board - this was primarily a
debugging interface.  It ought to be relatively easy, given the
hooks for the Archie windows manager, to convert this into something
for any graphics frontend or even a CGI to run on the web.  The entire
state between moves is passed in.

This was originally written in Pascal, but the version you see here 
was translated by p2c into C, then some maintenance was done to
the C version, so going back to the pascal source at this point
would be a mistake.  However, the C source is not the most readable
in the world so I include an old Pascal version as reference documentation.

NEITHER of these versions are the final one.  That one got lost
when I left the UK and didn't take a working Archimedes with me...
I'm hoping to recover those old lost discs sometime soon.

There is no strategy in this player, it just plays the highest-scoring
word.  The original effort in this program was to make it look good
on the Archimedes windows manager.

The included dictionary is of dubious quality and should be replaced.
(The same could be said of the C code)

This does *not* use the DAWG data structure.  I just wanted to be
different.  It uses a data structure keyed by a canonical sort of the
wordlist (ie using an anagram dictionary)


This program can be quickly adapted to solving scrabble puzzles by
feeding in a different "board.init"


Graham Toal <gtoal@gtoal.com>
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MEMO: came across some code recently for permutations this is
different from the one I wrote.  Should have a look at it to see
how it works: http://www.cs.georgetown.edu/~velar/code/permutations.html