Source: polygen Section: games Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian QA Group Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 10), dh-exec, dh-ocaml, ocaml-nox, Standards-Version: 4.1.1 Homepage: http://polygen.org/ Vcs-Git: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/collab-maint/polygen.git Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/collab-maint/polygen.git Package: polygen Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${ocaml:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, Recommends: polygen-data, Description: generator of random sentences from grammar definitions PolyGen is a program for generating random sentences according to a grammar definition, that is following custom syntactical and lexical rules. . Formally, it is an interpreter of a language itself designed to define languages, where to interpret means executing a source program in real time and eventually outputting its result. . Here a source program is a grammar definition, the execution consists in the exploration of such grammar by selecting a random path and the result is the sentence built on the way. . Though PolyGen is quite a serious piece of software then, what else would be more noble for it than being used as a parody tool for linguistical habits, stereotypes and trends of this foolish era? . Principles of parody are focusing a ridiculous topic and eventually abstracting its rules and schemes (here in terms of a grammar definition) by which reproducing it through the variatio device. And randomization is perfect at this purpose thanks to its purely asemantic behaviour =:) Package: polygen-data Architecture: all Depends: perl, polygen, ${misc:Depends}, Description: grammar definitions for PolyGen PolyGen is a program for generating random sentences according to a grammar definition, that is following custom syntactical and lexical rules. . Formally, it is an interpreter of a language itself designed to define languages, where to interpret means executing a source program in real time and eventually outputting its result. . Here a source program is a grammar definition, the execution consists in the exploration of such grammar by selecting a random path and the result is the sentence built on the way. . This package contains various grammar files suited for polygen.