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RE: Fun with Markov chains: Generating synthetic text!
HMM biogeeks unite. I've never had to directly use touch them in my field, but they're part of a lot of the underlying toolset.
Aeons and ages ago, I remember playing with the disassociated press PERl module to do text generation like this.
I never used Perl. But I have heard that Perl was great for string processing etc.
Yeah, it was the one really sane option for strings back in the day when your other choices were pre-standards C/C++ or, well, pretty much that.