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From: finin@prc.unisys.com (Tim Finin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Eliza
Summary: try the doctor command in Gnu Emacs
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Date: 26 Mar 90 16:25:54 GMT
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In-reply-to: gregg@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Theodore Gregg)

In article <3384@dogie.macc.wisc.edu>, gregg@vms (Theodore Gregg) writes:
>
>Eliza is a program that carries on a simplistic conversation in 
>English. It was originally developed by Joseph Weizenbaum and
>was described in the Communications of ACM, January, 1966. I
>was wondering if anyone had a copy of the source for this 
>classic program, written in Lisp. ...

The most accessible version of a Eliza-like program is distributed with Gnu
Emacs.  Just enter the command "doctor" to Gnu Emacs to invoke it.  The source
is provided, of course, and can be found wherever your system puts its Gnu Emacs
Lisp code.  Most implementations of an Eliza-like system that I have seen have
descended from a version of Doctor done for Maclisp around 1969.  I don't know
the history of that software, but I think Jon L. White may have been be
responsible.  The Gnu Emacs version does not look like a port of this, however.
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