Re: IRC channel

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On Sat, 03 Feb 2001 13:53:07 -0800, "Kat" <gertie at pell.net> wrote:

>On 3 Feb 2001, at 11:22, Mike The Spike wrote:

>> Eliza?
>> Isn't that an AI program you can download on the net?

>Not really Ai, just a basic see_trigger_phrase_and_reply sort of bot.
>alledgedly it's
>Rogerian psychotherapy,,, with the emphasis on psycho, imo. It's been ported
>from Apple
>to most puter languages, but not to mirc, thankfully, or we'd be seeing a lot
>more of it
>on irc.

And it was ported to the Apple from LISP mainframes.

>Re porting Eu to mirc, and vice versa, can't.

>Mirc has a goto, but no "while".

mIRC does have "while" in 5.8

>Mirc has length-limited vars, but they aren't typed at all.
>Mirc has easy socks and gui coding.
>Mirc doesn't crash on assigning across var types.
>Mirc allows importing files to exec at any time by script.

>Eu can't exec variables, and hasto declare all it's vars by type.

The declaration problem can be circumvented by using the type 'object'
exclusively.

>Eu enforces types, and crashes if you use the wrong one.
>Eu uses odd equal() and booleans must be atoms.
>Eu won't let you build var names within the script.
>Eu isn't inherently multithreaded in anything.

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