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Subject: Re: Computer writes a book?
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In article <1993Jan26.145900.1536@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> echristo@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Elena A Christofides) writes:
>Well, it hasn't actually written a book, but....
>
>My husband wrote a program that writes poetry. This program is actually in 
>basic.
>
>In my modern poetry class a while ago, we had to submit up to three poems that 
>were our own original work. Both my poems got A-/B+, whereas the computers poem
>got an A+!
>
>My instructor was none the wiser at the time - it was a little joke to show 
>that the computer could write a L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poem as good if not better than
>the language poets themselves!

Either that or your instructor didn't know much about poetry :-)
What's a language poet anyway? Someone who writes bad poetry, dare I
suggest? :-) :-)

Nigel