There’s no such thing as a free lunch.<\/p>\n
You know, when I first started using the Internet, pretty much everything was free.\u00a0 Once you got used to searching, you could find just about anything on the ‘net, all the way up to and including source code for all kinds of things.\u00a0 So, in that spirit, I took some basic source code for some Perl language generation and manipulation scripts and modified them to run on the web.\u00a0 Then I offered them for free, just for the simple fun of having them and letting people use them.\u00a0 But, things have changed.\u00a0 Now, times are tough and hosting a website costs money.\u00a0\u00a0 That in and of itself isn’t a problem, except the use and abuse of those simple, fun, free scripts have caused so many server usage issues that my webhost is insisting that I either disable them or pay for a higher grade of service that’s more than three times what I’m paying now.\u00a0 So, guess what?\u00a0 Yep, the scripts are going away.\u00a0 Maybe I’ll figure out how to do them with PHP instead of Perl one day, but until then, I have to disable them.\u00a0 Either that, or come up with over $200 a month for a dedicated server.<\/p>\n
So, I’m afraid that it comes down to dollars and sense.\u00a0 I don’t have the dollars, so I have to exercise a little sense and take the freebies off-line.<\/p>\n
I wish I had a better solution, but I just don’t.\u00a0 I hope you all enjoyed them while they were here, but, now, due to forces beyond my control, I have to shut them down.<\/p>\n
UPDATE<\/strong><\/em>: For people looking for other free language generation software, you can check out the programs that I either adapted for the web, or that inspired me.\u00a0 Chris Pound’s Language Machines<\/a> pages held the first Perl code I worked with for many of the scripts and Jeffrey Henning’s amazing LangMaker<\/a> was instrumental in much of my design.\u00a0 (LangMaker<\/a> is also available for free at Softpedia.)\u00a0 So, please, don’t give up on your languages!\u00a0 Check out what these guys offer and keep working on your fantasy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There’s no such thing as a free lunch. You know, when I first started using the Internet, pretty much everything was free.\u00a0 Once you got used to searching, you could find just about anything on the ‘net, all the way up to and including source code for all kinds of things.\u00a0 So, in that spirit, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,20,19],"tags":[897,898,143,356,899],"class_list":["post-767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-constructed-languages","category-crass-commerce","category-criticism-marginalia-and-notes","tag-conlang-scripts","tag-no-such-thing-as-a-free-lunch","tag-perl","tag-php","tag-times-change"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}