VMs: 8-bit Monkey (was: Talking about entropy)

[Jacques Guy <jguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

2/26/03 8:15:19 PM, "Rafal T. Prinke" <rafalp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


>Concerning Jacques's Monkey program - is it possible to
>include 8-bit character set? 

No. Monkey was developed "on the fly". It started as a text-
generator. Then I discovered that it could be used to compute
the entropy to any order, and I added code to do it. Then I
discovered that it could be used to produce a concordance, and
I added code to do it, and so on. Result: it is a dreadful mess.

I did try to make it handle the 8-bit character set, but I came up
against too many problems. For instance, capitalizing. If say, 
the text is in French, then the code for e-acute must be turned
into that for E-acute. But what if it is in Cyrillic or in
Armenian? It won't work. The solution? A completely different
user interface. That would be fairly easy if Monkey had been
written modularly, but, as I have just told the sorry tale,
it was not.




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