I was infatuated with Eliza as a kid, thanks to its inclusion in David Ahl's "More BASIC Computer Games". It was my first foray into modifying someone else's code and trying to figure out how it worked. Something about this program was like jet fuel for my young imagination. The author of this article and founder of elizagen.org is Jeff Shrager, who was the first to convert Eliza from LISP to BASIC.

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