[pg]

I did the same thing with Paradise Lost to produce the "poem" at the start of ANSI Common Lisp. When read aloud it passed as poetry to a sample of 1 English Lit grad student.

[dfranke]

Another of life's mysteries solved. I've been wondering about that poem every time I open that book.

[pg]

It's explained in section 8.8. The source code is there.