Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!dali.cs.montana.edu!caen!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!ai-lab!life!cstacy From: cstacy@ai.mit.edu (Christopher C. Stacy) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: Help needed with Parry Program Message-ID: Date: 25 Apr 91 06:40:14 GMT References: <47689@ut-emx.uucp> Sender: news@ai.mit.edu Followup-To: comp.ai Organization: random Lines: 13 In-reply-to: meeu565@emx.utexas.edu's message of 23 Apr 91 03:41:41 GMT In early 1973 Vint Cerf published an ARPANET Network Working Group memo entitled "PARRY encounters the DOCTOR", where they hooked up those two famous hacks and let them talk at each other. They were using PDP-10s at Stanford (PARRY) and BBN (DOCTOR). Maybe someone at Stanford can give you a pointer to the PARRY code, if it's still around anywhere. But unless you are really only interested in archeology, I think you will probably have alot more fun just designing and writing those programs yourself. You'll get to define a personality that amuses you, and it's a good incremental refinement exercise. (I usually use a DOCTOR program as a an introductory workshop assignment when teaching Lisp to beginners, because it's one quick and fun application to demonstrate things like the use of symbols as semantic tokens.)