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From: alderson@netcom.com (Richard M. Alderson III)
Subject: Re: Looking for ELIZA
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In article <36anp2$mou@sernews.raleigh.ibm.com> edoutre@raleigh.ibm.com writes:

>If I remember correctly, ELIZA was originally a SNOBOL program

ELIZA was originally written in Weizenbaum's doubly-linked-list processing
language.  SLIP, wasn't it?  One of those old competitors to LISP, anyway,
rather than a string-processing language like SNOBOL or COMIT.
-- 
Rich Alderson   You know the sort of thing that you can find in any dictionary
                of a strange language, and which so excites the amateur philo-
                logists, itching to derive one tongue from another that they
                know better: a word that is nearly the same in form and meaning
                as the corresponding word in English, or Latin, or Hebrew, or
                what not.
                                                --J. R. R. Tolkien,
alderson@netcom.com                               _The Notion Club Papers_
