My German-English Dictionary has been ported from PHP to Perl and is now online. It's different from most online dictionaries in that it applies a series of searches designed to reduce the verbosity of the output, while improving the accuracy of the results. This is in accordance with my philosophy that language databases should be maintained in the simplest possible format, offloading complexity to search tools. The goal being, to provide users with the ability to easily modify the database and to quickly develop code.

The word list used in the online dictionary has its roots in one of the original Internet dictionaries on the web. Maintained from its modest beginnings by Frank Richter, the word list has grown significantly over the last decade. The word list is used in the online dictionary at the Technische Universität Chemnitz. Frank Richter also maintains das Ding, a Linux German-to-English dictionary, which uses the same word list as the TU-Chemnitz dictionary.

It's important to note that, while other websites eventually limited access to collaborative translating dictionaries, this word list has remained freely available. To point, the dictionary is distributed freely, das Ding is released under the GPL, and individual contributors are still listed. I say, "still", as my last contribution was in 1994, writing perl scripts to spell check, alphabetize, and remove duplicate entries in the dictionary. At that time, I also changed the format, where entries were on multiple lines separated with the character "-", to its current format, where both languages are on the same line separated by the characters "::". A feature that for better or worse persists to this day.