First published program written in Perl! Inspired by the late, great Terry A. Davis, Kris decided to craft a program similar to what he created in HolyC. Using words heard from random YouTube videos he's subscribed to, including ones from news articles, plus no profane language, presents a simply-made program that can be run easily along with adding more words, if need be.
First version—v1.00—contains eight hundred and five (805) words and phrases.
Seen here on his archived live stream, Terry A. Davis wrote the random word generator sensing connections between each word and phrase as (possible) messages from God. Deriving from that notion, Kris wondered, upon testing, if such words, found and entered on this program, yielded some connections: namely algorithmic determinism. Thus, begs the following questions: are certain words and phrases paired together more frequently than others? Are some words combined to tell the user something prophetic? Do certain words or phrases show up more than others This simple program has led into Kris' curiosity into Philosophy of Computer Science.
On Mac, Linux, or any BSD Unix flavors, assuming Perl is preinstalled, this can be run in any terminal of your choice—perl path/to/script.pl command. For Windows users, Strawberry Perl is recommended, using the portableshell batch file.
After running the command, simply press ENTER to generate the words randomized from the array. To stop/quit the program, type 'q' then ENTER.
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| Properties | |
|---|---|
| Program Name | Random Word Generator |
| Author(s) | Kris Caballero |
| Program Creation Date | November 25, 2025 |
| Release date (Version 1) | May 26, 2026 |
| Version Release | Version 1 (v1.00) |
| Lines of Code | 25 |
| Downloads | 17 times |
| Ingredients | |
| Software | GNU Emacs |
| Emacs Theme | Mac Classic Theme |
| Operating System | Microsoft Windows |
| Keyboard | Happy Hacking Keyboard Professional Classic (blank) |
| Keyboard layout | DVORAK (US) |