[maemo-developers] best way to write a dictionary program

[From: Martin DeMello]

I'm thinking of writing a dictionary program (straightforward word ->
definition lookup). the design goal being to be as light on resources
as possible while still being reasonably fast. My initial thought was
to store the dictionary as a straight text file with one
"word+definition" per line, maintain an index of the offsets of the
first three letters, and then binary search from there. Any better
ways to do it? Would I be better off just using sqlite3?

martin