Eliza in GnuCOBOL (2017)

[abrax3141]

https://sourceforge.net/p/open-cobol/contrib/514/tree//trunk/samples/eliza/eliza.lst

[acqq]

Why linking to that .lst ? It's some strange output and contains error messages. The source is here:

https://sourceforge.net/p/open-cobol/contrib/514/tree//trunk...

and I'd like to know if the source compiles.

[abrax3141 → acqq]

Thanks. It didn’t occur to me that that wasn’t the source. (It doesn't look like I can edit it the OP.) BTW, it does compile. I've been in communication with the author and he has shared with me additional code and details. I've asked his permission to share it here (and encouraged him to share it himself).

[abrax3141]

The author, Arnold Trembley, tells me (reposted with permission):

I have a link on my website:

  https://www.arnoldtrembley.com 

for an executable download for Eliza in GnuCOBOL that runs on Windows 7 and higher.

I also have GnuCOBOL compilers available for download at:

  https://www.arnoldtrembley.com/GnuCOBOL.htm

[orionblastar → abrax3141]

It looks like he forgot the extension to his site. Is it com org net edu?

[abrax3141 → orionblastar]

The full url is there. It’s just truncates on narrow platforms.

[azhenley]

For everyone who also had not heard of Eliza: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA

It is a chat bot from the 60s that acts as a therapist.

[jlg23 → azhenley]

Or for the emacs users: talk to your M-x doctor ;)

[abrax3141 → azhenley]

Thanks, but I doubt anyone hasn't heard of Eliza ... at least no one here!

[sedatk → abrax3141]

or Dr. Sbaitso for that matter.

[nemoniac]

There was a Lisp interpreter written in COBOL on the HN front page today. An option for Eliza in COBOL might have been Eliza on Lisp on COBOL.

[marktangotango]

Gnucobol formerly opencobol uses c as an intermediate language and offer nonstandard functionality to link/call arbitrary c libraries. This of course opens the door to lots of peculiar “in cobol” apps.