Posted by mbstevens on 11/17/82 11:56

On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 14:07:33 +1000, dorayme wrote:

> In article <pan.2006.08.26.03.22.44.320033@XmbstevensX.com>,
> mbstevens <NOXwebmasterX@XmbstevensX.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 12:51:40 +1000, dorayme wrote:
>>
>> > I reckon that you trained to be able to get the wrong end of the
>> > stick so often. You are good! You are very good! The point was
>> > not about the boring but about the very. Ah... Eliza... you Basic
>> > wizard you....
>>
>> I can't think of anything more perverse than someone who rewrote
>> Eliza in Basic. Eliza's _Basically_ about list processing in Lisp. I
>> could understand rewriting it in Haskel, Python, Ruby, or Perl. But
>> Basic? That's just sick. Sick. Sick.
>> :~)
>
> Well maybe this accounts for the perversely rigid nature of such
> a wizard, perhaps the original Lisp Wizard was more flexible?

I had a good Lisp version running on my 64K ram
Kaypro in 1983. That hot rod featured two big floppies for
storage.

Eliza's a really old program that has roots dating from nearly the
beginning of the AI movement. There is even a version running on the Emacs
editor. Part of the point of Eliza is to demonstrate the ease of doing
certain things when you can process lists.

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