The language was not designed by chance. Some of the syntax was designed by chance. “Some of the syntax” is a very tiny part of a language.
While this is interesting, presenting it as a “randomly-generated language” is extremely misleading.
While this is interesting, presenting it as a “randomly-generated language” is extremely misleading.
All in all, though, this paper goes much further in trying to derive language usability than any I've seen. And it does seem disturbing that randomly selected characters (even for a subset of the language) should fare as well as Perl's hand-picked syntax.