From: Tom Copeland <tom@...>
Date: 2006-08-09T14:34:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Language chatter

On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 13:41 +0900, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> By the way, one of the classic "demonstrations of Artificial 
> Intelligence", ELIZA, was written not in Lisp but in a list-processing 
> language patterned on Lisp but implemented in (pregnant pause) FORTRAN. 
> But the SLIP interpreter, rather than being "sufficiently complicated" 
> was in fact "delightfully simple."

Way OT here, but Joseph Weizenbaum (who write ELIZA) also wrote an
excellent book "Computer Power and Human Reason".  Here's a review:

http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~palmquis/courses/reviews/amy.htm

Definitely worth picking up if you can find a copy somewhere...

Yours,

Tom