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albertsun
Only a sentence in very rough terms as he's just stringing together an arbitrarily large number of noun phrases. The palindromes are of the form:

S -> "A man", "a plan", (NP,)* "a canal, Panama!"

which I suppose you could call a sentence.

momotomo
Indeed. It's a fun exercise in coding but the output is very "monkey at typewriter not producing Shakespeare".
jpeterson
Doesn't he have bigger things to worry about, like staying ahead of Bing search quality, for one?
tokenadult
He needs to upgrade his website (which has great content). Right now the article is not appearing for me, so maybe HN has the power of slashdotting now.
angrycoder
Sometimes programmers do things just for fun. Its helps stave off the urge to bludgeon themselves to death with their own keyboard.