Re: [Haskell-cafe] How would you hack it?

Wow. Did I really quote the article as "Communcations"? (A new, little known work by Shannon! :/ The link is correct anyway. -ljr Evan Laforge wrote:

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Lanny Ripple wrote:

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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 :)