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Joseph Weizenbaum's Original ELIZA

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That’s a nice bit of history, nice

Reminded of someone recently writing about the original Trusting Trust code, too
Tangent to the whole thing: digging through the archives is referred to as “spelunking” in the article. I’ve heard people referring to reading and interpreting legacy code as “archaeology”. What other fun metaphors do we have for looking through old stuff?
- I tend to think of looking into the typical awful.systems topic areas as sewer diving
  
  In that sense, as with sewer diving, there's a sweet spot of anosmia.
  
  excuse me good sir, that's under the department of societal maintenance
  
  (no I don't really think that pompously of it but at least the tracking and awareness side of it is not all that far removed either)
From another perspective, ELIZA

ELIZA is a compiler!

(this post was sponsored by the 'form a certain point of view every program is a compiler' gang)
- from a certain point of view every program is a dependency manager
Also: I guess this is a spoiler?

spoiler

Upon seeing "Eliza" for the third time, I wondered if it was a reference to "My Fair Lady." Well, it was, once removed.

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