This post from Eric, inspired by a prompt from Andrei Alexcandrescu, examines the interface of. Appraising its usability and performance. Eric looks at a few different designs, in particular those that leverage the move semantics introduced in C 11.

One way to generate plausible-sounding gibberish is called Markov-chain text generation. Generate probabilities of which letters will follow other letters in that text. Randomly pick new letters using the probabilities you just generated. The result is something that. Like the original text, but is nonetheless random. How random is it? .