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King James Programming

Posted by Soulskill on 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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  1. Hey!!! by thewils · · Score: 5, Funny

    It actually makes more sense!

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    1. Re:Hey!!! by Darinbob · · Score: 4, Funny

      Blessed be the Lisp makers, for they shall inherit the special forms.

    2. Re:Hey!!! by X0563511 · · Score: 5, Funny

      I love my new signature...

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    3. Re:Hey!!! by Thomas+Miconi · · 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.

  2. Jesix by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    They should use this to develop Jesix, or whatever it was called. You know, that Linux distro where they changed potentially offensive commands like "mount".

    1. Re:Jesix by citab · · Score: 5, Funny

      What about the Sermon on the /mnt?

      or /mnt/sermon?

  3. Interesting by sharknado · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Some of the marketing crap my company produces is worse than the quotes generated in TFA. ...I wonder if I could make a business out of outsourcing our marketing team with this algorithm...I'll suggest to my boss and see what he says.

    1. Re:Interesting by sharknado · · Score: 5, Funny

      Some of the marketing crap my company produces is worse than the quotes generated in TFA. ...I wonder if I could make a business out of outsourcing our marketing team with this algorithm...I'll suggest to my boss and see what he says.

      Update: It didn't go over so well.

  4. oh noes! by turkeydance · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Scientology has a competitor! somehow, someone somewhere will take this way too seriously.

  5. Re:Blasphemy by narcc · · Score: 5, Funny

    SICP is popular right now, but I'd hardly call it divinely inspired.

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  6. Re:Markov Chains by mwvdlee · · 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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