Language survey 2016

[hugovk]

List of languages (written or programming) used in NaNoGenMo 2016.

Links to previous years:

• 2015
• 2014

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Programming Language

Bash - #135 #139
C++ - #55 #130
C# - #111
Haskell - #114
Java - #115 #131
JavaScript - #10 #27 #124 #128 #136 #137 #140 #155
Python (2.7 or unspecified) - #6 #7 #24 #29 #41 #45 #50 #53 #58 #61 #71 #95 #97 #98 #107 #113 #114 #117 #118 #119 #121 #123 #126 #127 #130 #132 #133 #134 #135 #138 #141 #143 #145 #146 #147 #149 #152 #156
Python 3.5 - #9 #125 #144
Ruby - #15 #44 #151
Tracery - #6 #27 #128

Text Language

Chinese - #107
English - unless otherwise noted here
French - #41 #126
Russian - #137

Common Source-Texts

Arthur Conan Doyle - Dancing Men - #29
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice - #10 #146
Italo Calvino - If on a winter's night a traveler - #58
Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary - #126
Shirley Jackson - The Lottery - #29
James Joyce - Finnegan's Wake - #10
James Joyce - Ulysses - #129
Jack Kerouac - On The Road - #98
H. P. Lovecraft - #12 #135 #139
Herman Melville - Bartleby the Scrivener - #156
Herman Melville - Moby Dick - #124
Flannery O’Connor - Revelation - #29
Yoko Ono - Grapefruit - #22 #93
Edgar Allen Poe - complete works - #145
Edgar Allen Poe - The Tell-Tale Heart - #29
Edgar Allen Poe - Cask of Amontillado - #29
William Shakespeare - complete works - #132
Bible - #131
US Constitution - #131
US Declaration of Independence - #131

[dluman]

#24 is using Python 2.7

[blackle]

#55 is C++

[serin-delaunay]

#9 and #125 are Python 3.5 and IPython notebooks.

[edgriebel]

#131 using Java 8. Source texts: Bible, US Constitution, Declaration of Independence for now.

[scotchfield]

Another text language--there's a Chinese translation of #107 available here: https://github.com/Yangzhedi/story-grammar

[uristjack]

#50 is using Python 2.7, in English.

[agladysh]

@hugovk How about a method survey? E.g. template-based, neural nets etc.? Also, languages (natural and programming) and methods would look good as issue labels.

[hugovk]

I won't have time, but sure, feel free to comment here or create a new issue for a method survey!

Issue labels are probably an easier way to do it too, let's try that next year.

[agladysh]

@hugovk is there a good source of terminology for methods? It would help if you'd write (or link to) a brief list of them to get us started.

[hugovk]

@agladysh Ah, identifying and categorising is the difficult part! The headings from https://habrahabr.ru/post/313862/ might be a good starting point.

[agladysh]

Thanks. This can be one too: #84

[agladysh]

Tentative method list (each submission may be listed in several):

• Markov chains
• Text templates Old Starship Tales #136 Сказки ботов (Bot Tales, in Russian) #137
• Recursion
• Literary text post-processing
• Other text or data post-processing
• Neural networks
• Simulation

@hugovk What do you think?

Next steps after figuring out the format would be to create a new issue and use it as a seed for a crowdsourced identification and categorization effort. I.e. let the authors themselves do it.

[hugovk]

@agladysh Looks good to me.

[serin-delaunay]

#143 is Python 3.5.

[agladysh]

Started a new issue: #154. Any help updating it is welcome.

[enkiv2]

#12 used Lovecraft as well.