Shakespeare was a horrible little man who did little to advance the
human race besides writing a few plays that people neither read nor
care about.
Besides that, he spent a lot of time writing down whatever few letters
had been going around his head, producing some mighty fine words. Here
are some other mighty fine words you may enjoy.
class Poet
def initialize(inspiration)
@inspiration = inspiration
end
def invent!(conformity = 3)
seed = " "
answer = ""
loop do
possible = @inspiration.scan(Regexp.new(seed + "(.)"))
new = possible[rand(possible.length)][0]
return answer if new == ' '
answer = answer + new
seed = seed + new
seed.slice!(0) if seed.length > conformity
end
end
end
shakespeare = Poet.new(File.open('dictionary').read.gsub(/\n/, " "))
50.times { puts shakespeare.invent! }
