Thank you! One last question - do you know a good source for learning
Python? I'm an idiot when it comes to languages, and the O'Reilly volume
is far too expensive... - Alan
On Mon, 4 Sep 2006, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen wrote:
With these texts I've used AWK and Python, also
in Lua in other recent pieces. Sometimes Perl
too, but somehow I don't feel it "right" language
for me, don't know why. Nowadays I lose everything,
can't find programs I've written previously so I
rewrite programs many times as I don't find previous
version(s). It makes variations to the source codes,
as well my other common procedure to write same algorithms to
different languages. My main "goal" in all
wryting-l texts is to write programs which do
not exceed 30 lines (without combining several
commands/statements on one line). And use grep/sed
as much as posssible...
-Jukka
ps. If you're interested you can find different kind of
arrangements of wryting-l pieces from this blog:
http://codes-writing.blogspot.com
Quoting Alan Sondheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I'm curious, what language are you using? There's something wonderfully
mysterious about it. Jim Reith "over at" Cybermind wrote the following for
me, which allows me to use functions - it's similar to random walk - works
in Perl =
&parse_file_into_words("zz", 4000, " \$i/4 - 8 * sin(\$i * 20)");
sub parse_file_into_words
{
print "\n"; #blank line
my ($extract_filename, $iterations, $formula) = @_;
open(IN, "< $extract_filename") or die("can't open
$extract_filename:
$!");
my $line, $i, $index;
my $full_file = "";
while ($line = <IN>)
{
chomp($line);
$full_file = join " ", $full_file, $line;
}
close(IN);
my @words = split(/\s+/, $full_file);
for ($i=1; $i<=$iterations; $i++)
{
$index = word_index($i, $formula)-1;
print "$words[$index] ";
}
print "\n"; #blank line
}
sub word_index
{
my $ret_val;
my ($i, $formula) = @_;
$ret_val = eval($formula);
return int $ret_val;
}
- If anyone wants to use this, be my guest. Just change the formula to
whatever you want - Alan
On Mon, 4 Sep 2006, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen wrote:
Thanks Alan, very much. Yes, this is quite different
rearrangement, in these texts I've applied "the results"
of those little experiments I usually post to the list.
Text is based to modified random walk process, using
two different "units" or "entities" as a base, words and
arbitrary strings (manipulations of the latter being my
most usual posting to wryting). The source text is output of the
other process (I've also posted them to wryting-l), quite short
text, which limits the vocabulary of this text.
I'm very glad of your kind words Alan.
-Jukka
Quoting Alan Sondheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Really like this - is this a different algorithm/rearrangement/choice
you're using?
Your work is like a backbone, protocol marrow -
- Alan
On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen wrote:
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