On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:55 PM, Neil Cerutti <ne...@norwich.edu> wrote: > On 2013-07-17, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:20 PM, Neil Cerutti <ne...@norwich.edu> wrote: >>> Markov chains are an advanced technique you could introduce, but >>> you'd need a huge list of names broken into syllables from >>> somewhere. >> >> You could use names broken into letters... or skip the notion >> of names and just generate words. Lists of words are easy to >> come by (eg /usr/share/dict/words on many Linux systems), so >> you can have some fun without much effort. > > That's true. Something like syllables should emerge from markov > chains of letters pretty well, depending on how long the the > chain is.
I might have to hunt down my old Dissociated Press implementations, they were fun fun fun. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list