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Re: a golden oldie challenge: Eliza

by William James <w_a_x_man@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Feb 24, 2008 at 06:22 AM

Stevan Apter wrote:
> thanks for asking ken.
>
> e:{$[(#b)=i:(|/'b:(w@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(w:(`$" "\:x@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 in".?"))in`)in\:/:A)?1b;E@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>      " "~n:c@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(c:{x@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 i)ss/:N;c
>      .q.ssr[c;n;" "/:$(),P'(w[k],p:1_'(0,1+k:b[i]?1b)_`,w)"I"$n]]}
>
> it's just a single eye-watering case statement:
>
>     if no keyword match in A, then return a default response from E
>     else if no substitution in the response c picked from C, return c
>     else substitute and return

This does so little that it should be no more than 2 lines.
In Ruby:

S =
  [ /father|mother|brother|sister/i, "Tell me about your 0."],
  [ /\b(am|i'm) (.*)/i, ["Why are you 2?","Have you always been 2?"]],
  [ /\bI was (.*)/i, ["Why were you 1?","I can't believe you were
1."]],
  [ /\bI will (.*)/i, "Do you think it's wise to 1?"],
  [ /\bI (.*)/i, "Why do you 1?" ],
  [ /\b(you|your|yours)\b/i, ["We're talking about you, not me.",
             "Please don't be so personal."]],
  [ /.*/, ["That's very interesting. Do go on.",
        "Tell me more.",
        "I'm not sure that I understand you fully.",
        "Can you elaborate on that?" ]]

(gets;sub(/[.!?,; ]+$/,"");x=Array(S.find{|a|$m=$_.match(a[0])}[1])
puts x[rand(x.size)].gsub(/\d/){$m.to_a[$&.to_i]}) while 9

Although cryptic, it should make more sense to most programmers
than the K code.




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a golden oldie challenge: Eliza
Mark Tarver <dr.mtarve  2008-02-22 03:49:44 
Re: a golden oldie challenge: Eliza
Mark Tarver <dr.mtarve  2008-02-22 03:59:02 
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William James <w_a_x_m  2008-02-22 14:09:58 
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"John Thingstad"  2008-02-23 13:00:30 
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"Stevan Apter"   2008-02-23 13:21:00 
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Ken Tilton <kennytilto  2008-02-23 15:24:42 
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"Stevan Apter"   2008-02-23 16:42:31 
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Ken Tilton <kennytilto  2008-02-23 20:55:56 
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"Stevan Apter"   2008-02-24 07:44:32 
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Mark Tarver <dr.mtarve  2008-02-22 17:12:49 
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William James <w_a_x_m  2008-02-22 19:19:31 
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Szabolcs <szhorvat@[EM  2008-02-23 14:12:17 
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Szabolcs <szhorvat@[EM  2008-02-23 14:26:03 
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Ben Bacarisse <ben.use  2008-02-24 00:01:08 
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William James <w_a_x_m  2008-02-23 20:14:36 
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Szabolcs <szhorvat@[EM  2008-02-24 01:51:00 
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Mark Tarver <dr.mtarve  2008-02-24 03:59:56 
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Rainer Joswig <joswig@  2008-02-24 18:29:12 
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Neelakantan Krishnaswami   2008-02-24 18:03:20 
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Mark Tarver <dr.mtarve  2008-02-24 04:06:09 
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William James <w_a_x_m  2008-02-24 05:30:38 
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"Stevan Apter"   2008-02-24 08:59:51 
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William James <w_a_x_m  2008-02-24 06:22:31 
Re: a golden oldie challenge: Eliza
"Stevan Apter"   2008-02-24 09:37:17 
Re: a golden oldie challenge: Eliza
William James <w_a_x_m  2008-02-24 06:42:47 
Re: a golden oldie challenge: Eliza
"Stevan Apter"   2008-02-24 10:56:28 
Re: a golden oldie challenge: Eliza
William James <w_a_x_m  2008-02-24 06:57:22 
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Dimitre Liotev <notmy@  2008-02-24 10:00:29 
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"Stevan Apter"   2008-02-24 10:49:22 
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Arved Sandstrom <asand  2008-02-24 17:28:25 
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"Stevan Apter"   2008-02-24 13:03:11 
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Ken Tilton <kennytilto  2008-02-24 13:59:55 
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Dimitre Liotev <notmy@  2008-02-24 11:18:27 
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William James <w_a_x_m  2008-02-24 12:36:12 
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William James <w_a_x_m  2008-02-24 13:11:47 
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William James <w_a_x_m  2008-02-24 13:26:38 
Re: a golden oldie challenge: Eliza
Arved Sandstrom <asand  2008-02-25 17:16:43 
Re: a golden oldie challenge: Eliza
William James <w_a_x_m  2008-02-24 13:35:20 
Re: a golden oldie challenge: Eliza
Brian Adkins <lojicdot  2008-02-25 09:52:13 
Re: a golden oldie challenge: Eliza
"Stevan Apter"   2008-02-25 16:58:13 

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