King James Programming

Posted by Soulskill on Friday December 6, 2013 @11:08AM from the though-i-walk-through-the-valley-of-the-shadow-of-regular-expressions dept.

Jah-Wren Ryel writes "What do you get when you train a Markov chain on the King James Bible and a copy of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs? King James Programming — a tumblr of auto-generated pseudo-scripture (or pseudo-compsci lessons). Some examples: -- 'The LORD is the beginning (or prefix) of the code for the body of the procedure.' -- 'More precisely, if P and Q are polynomials, let O1 be the order of blessed.' -- ''In APL all data are represented as arrays, and there shall they see the Son of man, in whose sight I brought them out.'"

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oh noes! by turkeydance · 2013-12-06 11:22 · Score: 4, Insightful

Scientology has a competitor! somehow, someone somewhere will take this way too seriously.
Re:Hey!!! by Thomas+Miconi · 2013-12-06 12:05 · Score: 4, Insightful

That stuff totally needs to go into a fortune file. And then be included in the default fortune files of all major distros.
Re:Markov Chains by mwvdlee · 2013-12-06 12:08 · Score: 4, Insightful

It's not supposed to be novel, it's supposed to be funny.
In that, it succeeds quite well.

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