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ITP[?]: polygen
- From: Lapo Luchini <lapo at lapo dot it>
- To: "[ML] CygWin-Apps" <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 23:24:33 +0200
- Subject: ITP[?]: polygen
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Would anybody rejoice/care/hate/enlighten/cry/die if proposed to
mantain such a package?
http://polygen.org/web/Paper.539.0.html
http://packages.debian.org/stable/games/polygen
I quote from debian description:
PolyGen is a program for generating random sentences according to a
grammar definition, that is following custom syntactical and lexical
rules.
Formally, it is an interpreter of a language itself designed to define
languages, where to interpret means executing a source program in real
time and eventually outputting its result.
Here a source program is a grammar definition, the execution consists
in the exploration of such grammar by selecting a random path and the
result is the sentence built on the way.
Though PolyGen is quite a seriuos piece of software then, what else
would be more noble for it than being used as a parody tool for
linguistical habits, stereotypes and trends of this foolish era?
Principles of parody are focusing a ridiculous topic and eventually
abstracting its rules and schemes (here in terms of a grammar
definition) by which reproducing it through the variatio device. And
randomization is perfect at this purpose thanks to its purely
asemantic behaviour =:)
Lapo
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