From: geoff@collyer.net
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] could it write code too?
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 21:17:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cc28702d2fe98465f256a1b8d5fccafc@collyer.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200504150145.j3F1jfoi015671@haides.silverbrookresearch.com>
Did festoon ever get distributed outside the labs? Maybe it was a
late Research Unix thing only? It did something similar: generated
plausible-looking papers of random gibberish, complete with tables,
graphs and equations.
Google suggests that a binary and man page escaped into 2.9BSD.
A sample:
.TL
An Analogously Uniform Centralized Organization
.AU "C. C. Festoon" CCF Headquarters 1113538458
.AS
Usually,
there is not a major objective which may have been apomisoescing the apparentnesses.
Assumptions were insufficiently federesced by that investigation.
The interaction neoenniates a casually intelligent requirements definition.
Anytime that a not unactivating correspondence veriates at a process,
an invention had dispolyesced the substantial change.
In the same way as described above,
those criterias had ultimesced a system philosophy.
[...]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-15 4:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-14 23:27 Ronald G. Minnich
2005-04-15 0:55 ` Kenji Okamoto
2005-04-15 1:20 ` Russ Cox
2005-04-15 1:45 ` Andy Newman
2005-04-15 2:28 ` Kenji Okamoto
2005-04-15 2:33 ` Wes Kussmaul
2005-04-15 16:14 ` Wes Kussmaul
2005-04-15 2:45 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-04-15 3:57 ` [9fans] Pixar and Jell-O Karl Sackett
2005-04-15 5:14 ` Paul Lalonde
2005-04-15 13:00 ` Russ Cox
2005-04-15 4:17 ` geoff [this message]
2005-04-15 12:57 ` [9fans] could it write code too? Russ Cox
2005-04-15 13:42 ` Steve Simon
2005-04-16 0:02 ` geoff
2005-04-16 0:55 ` boyd, rounin
2005-04-15 2:42 ` Ronald G. Minnich
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