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This is an example of procedural languages at work.
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
##
## Procedural languages:
##
a = []
w=File.readlines('/usr/share/dict/words')
r=(0..10);c=r.map{Hash.new(0)};r.each{|i|
w.each{|v|c[i][v[i,3]]+=1 if v.length>i&&
v !~/'|(in|ing|ion|er?s?|eds|ard|or?)$/}}
10.times{s=w[rand(w.length)][0,2];r.each{
|i| s=s+(c[i].sort_by{|x|-x[-1]+rand(100)
}.find{|x|x[0]=~/^#{s[-2,2]}/}||"\n\n\n").
first[-1,1]};eval(97.chr)<<s.strip if !w.
include?(s.strip+"\n")||(s.strip.size<4)}
puts a
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