From: Ruby Quiz <james@...>
Date: 2006-10-06T22:19:10+09:00
Subject: [QUIZ] Posix Pangrams (#97)

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by Martin DeMello

A pangram is a sentence containing every letter of the alphabet at least once (a
famous example in English being "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog").
For maximum style points a pangram should read smoothly, and have both as few
repeated letters as possible (ideally zero), and as few words as possible.

This quiz extends the idea to the posix utilities[1] - write a program to find
pangrammatic collections of posix utilities that (1) use the fewest utilities
and (2) have the minimum number of repeated letters. In either case, break ties
on the other criterion; that is, your first solution should also have as few
repeated letters as possible, and your second one should use as few utilities as
possible.

[1] http://www.unix.org/version3/apis/cu.html has a complete list