June 14, 1994; Alan Beale
This file is in the public domain.
Dave Farber, co-author of the original SNOBOL programming
language, is noted for his creative use of the English language.
Hence the terms ``farberisms'' and ``to farberate''. This pro-
gram produces a randomly selected farberism.
Notes: Not all of the farberisms contained in this program were
uttered by the master himself; others have learned to emulate
him. A few of the farberisms may be objectionable to some per-
sons. ``I wouldn't marry her with a twenty-foot pole.''
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This program obtains its farberisms from the farber.sen file to
allow additional farberisms to be added without recompilation or
straining the limits of the Icon translator. It builds an index file
farber.idx to allow for efficient access to the sentences file. The
use of untranslated I/O for the index file is necessary for correct
behavior on some systems (e.g., MVS).
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