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Originally posted by Pocus:
I must say I'm impressed by the cleverness of your randomizer. have you started from scratch, or is the idea deriving from a known operating procedure?

pl means its a perl script? Do you plan to make a windows exe of your code?

A little of this, a little of that. The basic algorithm of the randomization process is pretty close to some pseudo-code Gandalf posted a while ago (although simplified in some areas and expanded in others) and the sets are basically standard mathematical sets with an added notation to handle weights. I guess the most important design-factor was the decision that things should be as configurable as possible - after that, things sort of took their own direction.

Yes, .pl means that it is a perl script (and there's also a couple of .pm files which are perl modules.) I'm afraid I'm not going to make an executable for windows (for one thing, I figure that most people that want to make use of the scripts will alter or adapt them to their own ends), but it's only a matter of installing perl and then writing "perl randomize_map.pl map_file.map ran_file.ran" to run it.