Network Programming with Perl

A Travesty Server

We now have all the ingredients necessary to write a client/server pair that does something useful with urgent data. This server implements "travesty," a Markov chain algorithm that analyzes a text document and generates a new document that preserves all the word-pair (tuple) frequencies of the original. The result is a completely incomprehensible document that has an eerie similarity to the writing style of the original. For example, here's an excerpt from the text generated after running the previous chapter through the travesty algorithm:

It initiates an EWOULDBLOCK error. The urgent data signal. This may be several such messages from different children. The parent will start a new document that explains the problem in ...