Re: IRC channel
- Posted by jzeitlin at cyburban.com Feb 03, 2001
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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. -- Jeff Zeitlin jzeitlin at cyburban.com (ILink: news without the abuse. Ask via email.)