[Haskell-cafe] How would you hack it?

[Henning Thielemann]

On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Andrew Coppin wrote:

> How would you do this?
>
> The approach I came up with is to slurp up the words like so:
>
>   raw <- readFile "words.txt"
>   let ws = words raw
>   let n = length ws
>   let wa = listArray (1,n) ws
>
> (I actually used lazy ByteStrings of characters.) So now I have an array
> of packed ByteStrings, and I can pick array indexes at random and use
> "unwords" to build my gibberish "sentences".

Sounds like a generator for scientific articles. :-)
Maybe
   http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/markov-chain
 can be of help for you. It's also free of randomIO.

> In my current implementation, all of this is in the IO monad (so I can
> pick things randomly).

You know of
   http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2006-December/020005.html
?