BASIC2\HAIKU.DOC ·
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1989-06-24 ·
from PCPlus_Issue-36_Sep_1989-FluxEngine-360kB
HAIKU COMPOSER
The program generates three-line poems in the style of the
Japanese Haiku. Because of the nature of English words, it was
not possible to keep to the classical metre of 5-7-5 syllables in
each haiku. The words in each line are selected at random, in a
defined order, from a vocabulary of 200 articles, adjectives,
nouns, verbs and prepositions. The poems have a nature theme, as
did most traditional haiku.
After running Haiku Composer, press any key to view each haiku in
turn. If a particularly appealing haiku turns up, it can be
saved on disk by pressing S. The haiku is added to a file
HAIKU.TXT, which can be viewed or printed with a word processor
which handles ASCII files. To relocate the haiku file to a
different directory, change the pathname found in the program.
The file contains a number of example haiku which were composed
by the program during development. Press Q to quit the Haiku Composer.