ELIZA
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
0warn against
Mar 9, 2026first mention
Sep 16, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“would be a great starting point for a backport to Lisp 1.5”
“there is a web version available here”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Threads where it came up
- Soul Player C64 – A real transformer running on a 1 MHz Commodore 64 2 mentions
- A warning about 'model welfare' 1 mention
- Vintage Artificial Intelligence: Before It Got Awkward 1 mention
- Exapunks 1 mention
- Exploring PDP-1 Lisp (1960) 1 mention
- Eliza: Natural Language Processing from 1967 1 mention
Also written as Eliza. Data: eliza.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 8
“reframe Eliza as being an implementation of a small subset”
The Racter book, "The policeman's beard is half constructed" is also available on the net as a pdf: https://www.ubu.com/media/text/racter/racter_policemansbeard.pdf
I'm good friends with the writer of Eliza. If you enjoyed it, you might like his novel. https://matthewseiji.com/process
“would be a great starting point for a backport to Lisp 1.5”
“there is a web version available here”
“ELIZA is better, because this doesn't seem to generate anything coherent.”
“it would easily have been more responsive”
“Eliza-style bots used explicit scripted pattern matching rules”