1100-line Perl emulator for BBN-Lisp runs original Eliza program
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You could easily port PARRY to work on SuperScript.
* No strict or warnings
* Calling subs with "&foo" syntax
* Globals, globals everywhere
It's cool that Perl just lets you whip things up with so little ceremony, but it's always nice when people write nice code, in any language.
A sad thing here is that the code looks like it mostly would run under strict and warnings, and it'd be pretty easy to simplify the sub definitions at the start
It's sad that people don't know or forget what makes a code easier to understand and how important it is.
It's like uncovering the manuscript of some old Beethoven score, and you and your friends choose to squeak it out with your armpits, instead of pulling together a string quartet.