Eliza in COBOL?

[Crox]

Hi,

I would like to find the algorithm for Eliza. That is a very old computerprogram that talks to you. It says things like:

"what is your problem?"

> my computer

"why is your computer a problem"

> because it crashed

"why did your computer crash?"

etc. etc.

Very funny and it should not be very difficult to make such a program in COBOL but... you need a basic language processing algorithm and I don't have it.

Who does?

Regards,

Crox

 

[theotyflos]

Hi Crox,

Try a google search. You will find thousands of sites about eliza.

 

[Crox]

Yeah, too much indead. I like an easy to understand example of the algorithm. Perhaps you know one.

 

[k5tm]

Crox,

There is a Perl implementation of Eliza on CPAN. Here is the author's description...

http://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/vol3_1/tpj0301-0002.html

Tom Morrison

http://www.liant.com

 

[Dimandja]

I googled Eliza source code in Java, Javascript, LISP, Scheme, Eiffel, Prolog and every other quirky language - but no COBOL.

Hey, here is Eliza in Snobol:

http://math.scu.edu/~dsmolars/ma169/eliza.sno

I even found that IBM has a project called eLiza - no kinship, I gather.

Dimandja

 

[k5tm]

The Perl implementation of Chatbot::Eliza is reasonably well documented:

http://search.cpan.org/src/JNOLAN/Chatbot-Eliza-1.04/Chatbot/Eliza.pm

Tom Morrison

http://www.liant.com

 

[Crox]

Thanks!