The ELIZA Archaeology Project: Uncovering The Original ELIZA
Great find. We had Weizenbaum visting the research organization where I was working in the seventies, a very friendly and humble person. Still remember his quip about expecting a time when computers would become able to sue a person fortythousand times per second. Progress!
Less than half a decade after Weizenbaum published ELIZA I learned Fortran IV programming by feeding punch cards to an old IBM 7090. :-) Somewhat later, I learned SNOBOL4, doing a lot of text processing using SNOBOL and a compiled dialect called Spitbol, on an IBM 370 with MVS. I still have Gimpel: Algorithms in SNOBOL4 (published by CatSpaw about ten years later in 1976) in my personal library. Gimpel mentiones ELIZA on page 375 of his book in the chapter about games, refering to both Weizenbaums original from 1966 and a SNOBOL4 version from Duquet, published in the ACM SIGPLAN Notices and still available here: -> ELIZA IN SNOBOL4.
N.B: I comment this here instead of commenting a forwarded posting, because both extracting an own post from a diaspora dump is far easier and because adding hashtags isn't possible when forwarding.
