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  13. Subject: Re: Shannon-theoretic Language Approximators
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  22. Sounds like some VERY interesting stuff that you're planning on working on, 
  23. there!
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  25. You might also want to look into SNOBOL/SPITBOL, which was a predecessor 
  26. language to Icon.  Some of us still use S*BOL daily in preference to Icon.
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  28. There's also a book, "Algorithms in SNOBOL4" by Gimpel (available through 
  29. Catspaw, and probably also through amazon.com) which contains a random text 
  30. generator, and some techniques probably rather relevant to your research.
  31.  
  32. Good luck, and please keep us posted on your developments!
  33.  
  34. Gordon Peterson
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