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Source: polygen
Section: games
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Enrico Zini <enrico@debian.org>
Build-Depends-Indep: debhelper (>= 4.0.0), ocaml-nox-3.08.3, cdbs, unzip
Standards-Version: 3.6.1.0
Package: polygen
Architecture: all
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ocaml-base-nox-3.08.3
Recommends: polygen-data
Description: generator of random sentences from grammar definitions
PolyGen is a program for generating random sentences according to a grammar
definition, that is following custom syntactical and lexical rules.
.
Formally, it is an interpreter of a language itself designed to define
languages, where to interpret means executing a source program in real time
and eventually outputting its result.
.
Here a source program is a grammar definition, the execution consists in the
exploration of such grammar by selecting a random path and the result is the
sentence built on the way.
.
Though PolyGen is quite a seriuos piece of software then, what else would be
more noble for it than being used as a parody tool for linguistical habits,
stereotypes and trends of this foolish era?
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Principles of parody are focusing a ridiculous topic and eventually
abstracting its rules and schemes (here in terms of a grammar definition) by
which reproducing it through the variatio device. And randomization is
perfect at this purpose thanks to its purely asemantic behaviour =:)
Package: polygen-data
Architecture: all
Depends: polygen
Description: grammar definitions for PolyGen
PolyGen is a program for generating random sentences according to a grammar
definition, that is following custom syntactical and lexical rules.
.
Formally, it is an interpreter of a language itself designed to define
languages, where to interpret means executing a source program in real time
and eventually outputting its result.
.
Here a source program is a grammar definition, the execution consists in the
exploration of such grammar by selecting a random path and the result is the
sentence built on the way.
.
This package contains various grammar files suited for polygen.
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