My second try at writing a general purpose perl library, and again it was a spinoff of a larger project. I wrote this for mooix, which needed a way to convert English prose into an integer, but instead of stopping with the lookup table for "one" .. "ten" that the application needed, I decided to go all the way (up to a googolplex anyway).
The good thing about doing that is that even if mooix doesn't survive, it seems likely that Lingua::EN::Words2Nums will. It still needs to be fixed to support fractions though.
Last weekned I was suprised to see Lingua::EN::Words2Nums mentioned in a recent book on advanced perl programming. I only have a link to an excerpt of the first chapter in Chinese handy though.
(Belated PS: Mooix's name didn't suck, and neither did "Lingua::EN::Words2Nums", much. Wow.)