From: "E." <erisson@sw-tech.com>
Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet
Subject: [comp.lang.perl.misc] Re: Graphing a tree from a text
Date: 6 Jun 1997 16:59:38 +0200

Subject: Re: Graphing a tree from a text 
From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.misc

On 12 May 1997, Mike McLeod wrote:

> Does anyone know of a chunk of code that will take a text representing a
> tree and convert it into a graphical representation in say gif format? 

I can see it now. Here's the input: "It's kinda tall, in a meadow, with
nice leaves all green in the spring air, and there's a pretty girl sitting
underneath it, writing poems." 

    I think that I may never see
      Perl code which draws (from text) a tree.
    Indeed, lest you a module call,
      I doubt you'll draw a tree at all.

Check out the graphics drawing modules (and maybe some of the text parsing
modules) on CPAN. Hope this helps!