On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 15:31, Filippo Giunchedi wrote: > PolyGen is a program for generating random sentences according to a grammar > definition, that is following custom syntactical and lexical rules. Ok, it's clear what it does. > 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. I had to read this one a few times to get the meaning (and, studying cs and having heard a basic course in compiler construction, I claim it's not because I don't understand the subject good enough). > 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. But then, this one clarifies it. No, can't think of a better way to say it right now - perhaps break it down into 2 sentences? Looking forward to play with it, though. Seems like I could do some funny things with it to generate random email .sigs if nothing else :-) cheers -- vbi -- this email is protected by a digital signature: http://fortytwo.ch/gpg
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