How do they do this? Can python?

[Michael Hudson]

Tim Daneliuk <tundra at tundraware.com> writes:

> <obscure and ancient Net Lore>
> 
> Does anyone here remember Bimmler (aka Rob Pike) at AT&T labs?
> Bimmler was Pike's alter ego who "took over" net.suicide.
> (See http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=bnews.rabbit.1105)
> 
> In the beginning Pike did things manually, but eventually,
> he used some research on text processing they were doing at the Labs to
> automate the process.  As I recall, the software took the
> daily output of a variety of selected USENET groups, stirred it
> together and produced output that seemed like legitimate English
> syntax, but was absolute semantic gibberish much like the
> recent spammage.
> 
> If you ever get a change to hear Pike tell the story, it is side-splittingly
> funny...
> 
> </obscure etc.>

This is the same Rob Pike who wrote "The Practice Of Programming" with
Kernigan?

I'm pretty sure there's a text dissociator as an example in that
book...

Cheers,
M.

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