Re: a golden oldie challenge: Eliza

On Feb 24, 6:06 am, Mark Tarver <dr.mtar...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Sorry I missed a couple of later attempts
>
> Lisp                       150 LOC  ................ Peter Norvig
> Qi (slightly revised)  63 LOC   .................Mark Tarver
> Ruby                      53 LOC   .................William James
> Q                           10 LOC   ..................Steven Apter
> K                             3 LOC  ...................Steven Apter
> Ruby (again)            17 LOC ...................William James
> Mathematica            20 LOC .................. Szabolcs
>
> Mark

The K version doesn't do everything that the Ruby
versions do.  It doesn't change "I" in the user's
response to "you" when throwing it back at the user,
for example.

When there are multiple possible replies to a user's
input, the Ruby program rotates those replies so that
not one will be repeated until all have been used.