Re: Monkey texts

[Zandbergen@xxxxxxxxxxx (Rene)]

Frogguy responded:

> Non, m'sieur, pas correct. Just press the right arrow key,
> and the text you see on the screen gets sent to a file
> MONKEY.SEZ (the text so saved is highlighted in reverse video
> on the screen). ...

Oops. Can you say: RTFM?
Thanks!

> I really ought to rewrite Monkey from scratch, in Euphoria
> (terrific language, Euphoria, no 64K limit, automatic
> garbage collection, no dangling pointers...)

I can't resist. Try fortran. No limit, no garbage creation in
the first place, and no pointers either, dangling or otherwise.

Mark: what I am after is a text typed by a somewhat 'intelligent'
monkey. This will not just generate text based on a single-
character frequency table, but the probility of each character depends
on the previous 1, 2 or more characters. These would be 2nd or 3rd order 
monkeys respectively. Especially a 3rd order monkey process generates
garbage of which the underlying language is very very clear, even
though the resulting text is nonsensical. (There are nice examples
in a 1970s book by W. R. Bennett, who also looked at the Voynich MS - see
bibliography at Jim Reeds' web site).

I expect that such monkey texts will exhibit LSC sums with the
same profile as meaningful texts (but it will be interesting to see
which order it takes to do so). If not, well, then the LSC sums really
seem to quantify a much more 'intangible' form of meaning...

Note: I am taking for granted that the Voynich MS was *not* created as
a hoax by someone employing a similar technique as in Jacques' monkey
program. At least not before the current century.

Cheers, Rene