Monkeys Still Unable To Produce Shakespeare--Or Perl

"UPPER PODUNK, SOUTH DAKOTA--It seemed like a simple experiment. Put a million monkeys in front of a million Linux boxes and see how long it would take for them to generate a Shakesperian play or a useful Perl script.

"So far, the project has been a bust. 'First, our budget was slashed and we were only able to obtain 12 monkeys,' explained scientist Wey Stotime of the University of Northern South Dakota. 'And now, after six months of banging away on keyboards and making assorted grunting sounds, our monkeys haven't generated anything worthwhile...'"

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