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Guy Jacobson added several items later that year.
A man, a plan, a cat, a ham, a yak, a yam, a hat, a canal--Panama!
Guy's palindrome appears on page 127 of COMMON LISP, THE LANGUAGE (page 170 of the 2nd edition).
The 2nd edition of COMMON LISP, THE LANGUAGE also contains the remarkable...
which is presumably the work of Guy Steele, the book's author.
I dredged up the problem in 1984, and discovered the following 540-word version with the help of a computer program that I wrote.
This was done with the Unix spelling dictionary and a fairly simple-minded program.
With a better word list and a smarter program I'm sure the palindrome could be ten times as long....
I am somewhat concerned that people have been redistributing these palindromes without attribution.
Please don't do so....
Dan Hoey Hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil

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