kerravonsen | Combinatorial Explosion

Well, I was right; it wasn't good enough. Trying to generate all possible words takes much time and much memory. The trick is to reduce it somehow; but even then I ended up with 3000 morphemes instead of 4000; and then just combining those into two-syllable words made, well, 360797 on the last run. I obviously need stricter rules or something.
Anyway, that's what I spent most of today on, writing rules and facts in CLIPS. I've now revised it to do things in three passes, which seems to make things a bit better. But what I really want is a script to do it all automatically. I'm wondering if I should just leave the one-syllable morpheme generation to CLIPS, and do the joining-for-words separately, maybe in Perl. On the other hand, maybe I should just do the whole thing in Perl, except that it is much easier to write rules in CLIPS.

I should probably give up on it for the moment; I've got story to write. Well, not now of course, I should be thinking about bed now.

Think positive! I had a nice phone call from a friend in the country tonight. That was good. In which she informed me that she'd looked up my name on the net and found an old unfinished collaborative work of mine, "Tarren and the Dragon" which was co-written by me, Johnathan Burns and Stephan Dahl for the alt.cyberpunk.chatsubo newsgroup about ten years ago, and never finished. Which is a pity, because it was a cool story. My friend said she'd gotten so caught up with reading it, she didn't have time to track down my actual website, and then found later by the bounce message, that the email address she'd thought was mine... wasn't.

Consider the irony of ringing up someone to get their email address. Well it seems rather ironic to me.

It finally happened -- I'm slightly mad...