4 Jun
2008
4 Jun
'08
11:14 p.m.
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Lanny Ripple
You might want to skim Shannon's 'A Mathematical Theory of Communcations'. Part 1, Section 2 and 3 are almost exactly your topic. (Or at least the direction you've headed in. :)
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/what/shannonday/shannon1948.pdf
Rob Pike's "Practice of Programming" has a few chapters with a markov generator in several different languages as a case study. None of them are functional, but it's a pretty clear description of the idea. The "plan9" in the url reminded me :)