longest word in a text

[Brian Yennie]

JB,
I don't know how the speed compares, but you don't necessarily need to 
go to the trouble of sorting if you only care about the longest word:

put 0 into maxLength
repeat for each word w in tText
    get length(w)
    if (it > maxLength) then put it into maxLength
end repeat

I would think that sorting everything would be costly unless you 
actually need to know the length of every word.

- Brian