TODO.txt

ToDo - Calling Executable Programs
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Version:	0.1
Author:		Keith Herbert
Date:		26 May 2014
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Add exception handling. 
	Currently both programs declare that they throw 
	exceptions but do nothing to deal with them. Including the sections of code
	involving I/O into a try-catch block would be a solution.

Stricter handling of arguments.
	Test if file exists and throw errors.
	Print help message.
	
Fix Windows console output for non-Latin characters. 
	Currently it spits out gibberish to console, but prints to file correctly.
	From what I can tell, this is a deep problem with how Windows console 
	handles Unicode.
	
Architecture change from scripting model to client-server model.
	Translate currently acts like a shell script that repeatedly calls 
	Dictionary, which acts like	a simple Unix program. This is wasteful because
	of the overhead from restarting a process and parsing a file on each pass
	of the main loop.
	Instead, Translate should only have to call Dictionary once, when it starts.
	Dictionary can then read the translation file into memory once and use a 
	binary search to quickly lookup words. 
	
Re-implement Translate as GUI
	Besides being easier to use, this would also solve the 
	problem with screwy output to Windows console for non-Latin characters. 
	
Embed Translate as an applet into a web page.
	Party like it's 1999.