Mark V. Shaney Junior is a minimal implementation of a Markov gibberish generator inspired by the legendary Mark V. Shaney program from the 1980s. Mark V. Shaney was a synthetic Usenet user in the 1980s that posted messages to newsgroups using text generated by a Markov chain program. See the Wikipedia article Mark V. Shaney for more details.

This release introduces the program mvs.py that implements a similar Markov text generator. It reads a text corpus of text from standard input, build an internal Markov model and then generate text using the model.

Please visit github.com/susam/mvs for the source code and some output examples.