[Miky]

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.

[m0th87]

Fair point. They can't, for example, randomly generate language semantics (how the hell would that work? :)

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.