Tor Egil Hoftun Kvæstad

This program was made to make it easy to generate haiku poems, although you don’t have to use it that way. It is a command-line program that accepts a file containing BNF as its command-line parameter. It then uses this to generate output.

For example, the following BNF:

<expr> ::= <foodexpr>, <drinkexpr>.
<foodexpr> ::= <person> eats <food>
<drinkexpr> ::= <person> drinks <drink>
<person> ::= he|she|it
<food> ::= meat|fish|fowl
<drink> ::= water|wine|beer

Produces output like “she eats meat, he drinks wine.”, “he eats fowl, it drinks water.” and “she eats meat, it drinks water.”

The newest version is version 1.1.0, released at 2023-04-13.

System Requirements

• A Python interpreter for Python version 3.10 and later

Languages

• English

Features

• Generates sentences using a file containing BNF.

Tools Used

Gnu Emacs, Python 3.10, mypy, pylint.

Changes

Version 1.1.0

Updated the code to Python 3, and to use the argparse module to parse the command-line parameters. Added type hints, and checked the code using mypy and pylint. I found quite a few issues that I fixed, both for the typing and for the code quality.