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From: Marco Ippolito (marco.ippolito_at_intel.com)
Date: 09/22/04

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    Hi,

    I am giving a seminar on C# interop and I would like to feature an original
    sample class to stimulate some interest.

    Does anybody want to write an open-source ConsoleApp || WinApp that, given a
    starting English word, calls Babylon for translations in N languages and
    plays a game with the user assigning one point for every
    language/translation pair entered? (I am a licenced user for 2004 :-)

    Example:

    word: Table

    User enters: de Tisch, es mesa, pt mesa, it tavolo, ...

    I would obviously give credit to the author and handle everything
    open-source!

    Other interop tasks could be "linking to MS Word and assigning a point for
    every synonym for the base language" or allowing multiple networked players
    to challenge each other or play in teams (20 seconds for every English word,
    1 point per answer, etc.)

    Just a thought...

    I will resort to the traditional DCOM Hello World, Fibonacci series or
    something as boring as that otherwise. :-) I just can't spare the time to
    look into this right now.

    Regards,

    Marco

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