[Haskell-cafe] How would you hack it?

[Evan Laforge]

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Lanny Ripple <lanny at cisco.com> wrote:
> 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 :)