This is purely geeky, so if you are not into it, don’t bother reading.
The memory leak strings “CDCDCDCD…” popping up in the debug output window today reminds me of hexspeak, and then I started to wonder how many hexspeakable English words out there. I downloaded some English word list (Ispell) and wrote a tiny python (2.6) script to extract these cuties, then I removed all those duplicated words with inflections, manually. As I found out, there aren’t many and here they go.
First, the short list – the “strict” ones, i.e. words that are constituted from only ‘A’ to ‘F’: http://pastebin.com/krXABNsF
Second, the longer list – the “loose” ones, i.e. words that are constituted from ‘A’ to ‘F’, ‘L’ (represented by number ‘1’), ‘S’ (represented by number ‘5’) and ‘O’ (represented by number ‘0’): http://pastebin.com/BSBH2X8e
Last, if it is worth mentioning at all, here is the tiny python script: http://pastebin.com/bKqrcfu1
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