in reply to Morse::Code

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Ever notice how the allocation of dots and dashes to characters resembles a Hufmann encoding? 
          .                   -
          E                   T
       /     \             /     \
    ..        .-        -.        --
    I         A         N         M
   /  \      /  \      /  \     /   \
 ...  ..-  .-.  .--  -..  -.-  --.  ---
  S    U    R    W    D    K    G    O

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Kinda makes sense, if you think about it for a moment. Morse code is an encoding designed to optimize bandwidth.
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Re^2: Morse::Code
by tadman (Prior) on Apr 17, 2001 at 00:47 UTC
    This visualization actually might simplify the coding of a morse code converter (i.e. Perl Golf?). I read about it in "Code" (Microsoft Press, but perhaps out of print) and found it to be an intriguing way to visualize Morse code. It enables you to write a simple state machine instead of a more complex pattern matcher.

    BTW, tr doesn't require set brackets, but including them would just harmlessly convert them to same, right?     tr/[a-z]/[A-Z]/ Is theoretically equivalent to:     tr/[]a-z/[]A-Z/ Which is much like:     tr/[]/[]/; tr/a-z/A-Z/ Right? Although you would probably use uc instead.
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