How do they do this? Can python?

[Tim Daneliuk]

Michael Hudson wrote:
> 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?

Yup.



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