NAME

hmmm.c - A simpleminded word generator based on hidden markov models

SYNOPSIS

 Usage:
   hmmm [-v] COUNT DEPTH SEED <WORDS
   where:
     -v    = be verbose
     COUNT = how many words to generate
     DEPTH = integer from 1..4 inclusive
     SEED  = a random integer
     WORDS = a list, one item per line, containing [A-Za-z ]

 Warning:
   needs nearly 70MB of RAM to run.

Given a list, one word per line, it will output "similar" words.

Presented purely for nostalgia.

HISTORY

Way back in 1989, I tried to write something similar to this. It tried to allocate about the same amount of memory (70MB). By today's standards this is tiny. Even by Y2K standards it's okay. By 1989 standards, the program would have consumed the entirety of the memory of the mainframe I tried to run it on... For all users. Oops!