Never been to DZone Snippets before?

Snippets is a public source code repository. Easily build up your personal collection of code snippets, categorize them with tags / keywords, and share them with the world

Haiku generator in newLISP (See related posts)

; newLISP CGI code to generate a random Haiku
; in the style of Matsuo Basho, Japanese poet of the 17th century.
; fashioned after an old FORTH program

#!/usr/bin/newlisp

(print "Content-type: text/html\n\n")

(print "<html><head><title>Random Haiku</title>")
(print "</HEAD>")
(print "<BODY>")
(print "<br><br><br><br><br><table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=600><tr><td><br>")

(println {<font face='verdana' size="2">})
(print "<blockquote><p><p>RANDOM HAIKU<p></p><p></p>")

(seed (time-of-day))

(set 'adjs '( "autumn" "hidden" "bitter" "misty" "silent"
	"empty" "dry" "dark" "summer" "icy"
	"delicate" "quiet" "white" "cool" "spring"
	"winter" "patient" "twilight" "dawn" "crimson"
	"wispy" "weathered" "blue" "billowing" "broken"
	"cold" "damp" "falling" "frosty" "green"
	"long" "late" "lingering" "bold" "little"
	"morning" "muddy" "old" "red" "rough"
	"still" "small" "sparkling" "throbbing" "shy"
	"wandering" "withered" "wild" "black" "young"
	"holy" "solitary" "fragrant" "aged" "snowy"
	"proud" "floral" "restless" "divine" "polished"
	"ancient" "purple" "lively" "nameless" ))

(set 'nouns '( "waterfall" "river" "breeze" "moon" "rain"
	"wind" "sea" "morning" "snow" "lake"
	"sunset" "pine" "shadow" "leaf" "dawn"
	"glitter" "forest" "hill" "cloud" "meadow"
	"sun" "glade" "bird" "brook" "butterfly"
	"bush" "dew" "dust" "field" "fire"
	"flower" "firefly" "feather" "grass" "haze"
	"mountain" "night" "pond" "darkness" "snowflake"
	"silence" "sound" "sky" "shape" "surf"
	"thunder" "violet" "water" "wildflower" "wave"
	"water" "resonance" "sun" "wood" "dream"
	"cherry" "tree" "fog" "frost" "voice"
	"paper" "frog" "smoke" "star"))

(set 'verbs '( "shakes" "drifts" "has stopped" "struggles" "hears"
	"has passed" "sleeps" "creeps" "flutters" "fades"
	"is falling" "trickles" "murmurs" "warms" "hides"
	"jumps" "is dreaming" "sleeps" "falls" "wanders"
	"waits" "has risen" "stands" "dying" "is drawing"
	"singing" "rises" "paints" "capturing" "flying"
	"lies" "picked up" "gathers in" "invites" "separates"
	"eats" "plants" "digs into" "has fallen" "weeping"
	"facing" "mourns" "tastes" "breaking" "shaking"
	"walks" "builds" "reveals" "piercing" "craves"
	"departing" "opens" "falling" "confronts" "keeps"
	"breaking" "is floating" "settles" "reaches" "illuminates"
	"closes" "leaves" "explodes" "drawing"))

(set 'preps '( "on" "beside" "in" "beneath" "of" "above" "under" "by"
	"over" "against" "near" ))


(define (get-word word-list)
	(set 'word-list-size (length word-list))
	(set 'word-list-index (rand word-list-size))
	(set 'selected-word (nth word-list-index word-list))
	(print " " selected-word " " ))

(define (get-adjective)
	(get-word adjs))

(define (get-noun)
	(get-word nouns))

(define (get-verb)
	(get-word verbs))

(define (get-prep)
	(get-word preps))

(define (style-one)
	(get-adjective)
	(get-noun)
	(print "<br>\n")
	(get-noun)
	(get-verb)
	(get-prep)
	(get-noun)
	(print "<br>\n")
	(get-adjective)
	(get-adjective)
	(get-noun)
	(print "<br>\n"))

(define (style-two)
	(get-adjective)
	(get-noun)
	(get-verb)
	(print "<br>\n")
	(get-adjective)
	(get-adjective)
	(get-noun)
	(print "<br>\n")
	(get-verb)
	(get-adjective)
	(get-noun)
	(print "<br>\n"))

(define (style-three)
	(get-adjective)
	(get-adjective)
	(get-noun)
	(print "<br>\n")
	(get-prep)
	(get-adjective)
	(get-noun)
	(print "<br>\n")
	(get-noun)
	(get-verb)
	(print "<br>\n"))

(define (style-four)
	(get-noun)
	(get-prep)
	(get-noun)
	(print "<br>\n")
	(get-adjective)
	(get-noun)
	(get-prep)
	(get-noun)
	(print "<br>\n")
	(get-adjective)
	(get-noun)
	(print "<br>\n"))

(define (print-haiku)
	(set 'which (rand 4))
	(if (= which 0)
	(style-one))
	(if (= which 1)
	(style-two))
	(if (= which 2)
	(style-three))
	(if (= which 3)
	(style-four)))

(print-haiku)

(print "<p></p>")
(print "<font size=1>")
(println {<p>You can click <a href="haiku.cgi">HERE</a> to see a new poem.})
(print "<p> Haiku generated in the style of Matsuo Basho, the Japanese poet of the 17th century.<br>
This haiku program originally written in pygmy <b>FORTH</b> by Kent Peterson.<br>Translated into <b>lisp</b>.")
(print "</blockquote> </table> </font> </body>\n</html>\n")

(exit)




You need to create an account or log in to post comments to this site.


Click here to browse all 5140 code snippets

Related Posts