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From: cracraft@sonia.cs.ucla.edu (Stuart M. Cracraft)
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Subject: Re: Eliza, Doctor, Parry, Ractor, etc, ...
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Date: Thu, 5-Mar-87 19:20:25 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar  5 19:20:25 1987
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Keywords: Eliza, Ractor, Parry, Doctor, software, literature.

In article <310@its63b.ed.ac.uk> dougie@its63b.ed.ac.uk (D Nisbet) writes:
>
>I have heard about the various "chatty" programs which have been written
>to imitate Psychiatrists (sp?), Doctors, Scribe's, etc, but have never
>had the opportunity to play (play?!) use any of these programs. This kind
>of software interests me a lot and would like to know if any of them
>(or similar type) are freely available.
>

Ractor is one of the funniest programs I've ever seen.
I ran it on a Macintosh over at the local software shop,
and it had me in stitches for almost an hour.

(The stiches were recently removed by GNU-EMACS's `doctor' mode.)

Stuart