On Saturday 24 July 2004 19:58, Chris Pearson wrote:
> All right.. What's an Eliza program(me)?
> Hello, I am Eliza.
* hello
> How are you today.. What would you like to discuss?
* mailing lists
> Tell me more...
* and holidays
> Tell me more...
* and autoresponders
> Come, come, elucidate your thoughts.
Emulates a Rogerian Psychotherapist - an early example of "you could be
replaced by a dozen lines of Perl[*]".
Google.
If you want to follow it up a little more, I recommend Galatea, who is quite
fun to talk to, for certain values of "fun".
(7th link on Google::Galatea)
[*] which can have lines of arbitrary length and complexity.
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Adrian Midgley Open Source software is better
GP, Exeter http://www.defoam.net/
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