Steve's Flamer - Random Flame Generator.

By Steve Baker <steve@sjbaker.org>

Introduction.

This program is for *FUN* OK?! It's not for people who are easily offended. It generates random incoherent raving of the kind that can be found on most alt.newsgroups. Once in a great while flamer says something profound:

"Your enthusiasm reminds me of a mouse pad." -- A.Flamer.

Hmmm - once in a VERY great while :-)

IMPORTANT NOTE: Flamer is a narrow minded red-necked jerk - BUT... he isn't me! Don't complain to me if he offends you.

Programs like this are called "travesty generators" - and there are lots of them around.

Installation:


    ./configure
    make 
    make install

If you are running Windoze or something that can't run configure scripts and makefiles, don't sweat it. There is just one C++ source file - no special options or libraries.

No, I won't provide a binary version, project files and such.

License:

This program is offered under the terms of the GNU Public License (GPL).

Instructions:

Run the program from a shell. It'll generate an approximately 100 line flame. Alternatively, you can pass the number of lines of flame you'd like on the command line.

eg: When someone posts a complaint about someone writing an email in a non-English language:


    flamer 1000 | mail jerk@idiot.moron.net

History of Flame. (aka "Mr Angry.")

I'm told that the original 'flamer' was on "a Motorola 286, running Vanilla V.1" and written by an unknown author.

Ian G. Batten, (Batten@uk.ac.bham.multics) pulled the data out of it, and rewrote it as PL/1 on Multics, then re-rewrote it in GNU-emacs-lisp, where I found it - and stole the data out of it.

I have since re-re-rewritten it in Lattice C for Atari-ST, then re-re-re-rewritten it in Borland C++ for IBM-PC, then finally ported it to g++ under Linux and hence to C++ under IRIX - and still neither Ian nor I, know who originally had the idea. Good programs never die - they just get re-re-written!

I have disposed of some of the phrases that didn't seem to scan right, or which were too repetitive - and added some new ones to add further variety.

I have also changed some of the words to bring them more into the 90's and to remove stuff that is only funny to a British audience.

You should probably re-(N)-write it. That's what most people do with it!