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Collective Exercise
Collective Exercise
 
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Infobot is a script, written in the PERL programming language by Kevin Lenzo. It's an example of a chatbot,
 
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infobot Wikipedia article]
* Published in 1998 in the [http://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/vol3_2/tpj0302-0002.html PERL Journal 3]. Republished in [https://hub.xpub.nl/bootleglibrary/read/469/pdf#page=131 Games, diversions, and PERL culture].
* Described in [https://hub.xpub.nl/bootleglibrary/read/470/pdf#page=181 Run an Infobot], in IRC Hacks, Paul Mutton. 2004.
 
There are many versions...
* https://sourceforge.net/projects/infobot/files/infobot/
 
The IRC Hacks article seems to reference the last "0" version, [https://sourceforge.net/projects/infobot/files/infobot/0.45.3/infobot-0.45.3.tar.gz/download 0.45.3]
Unfortunately, there seems to be a bit a old PERL still in this code that prevents it from "just running" in 2020. It turns out it's just a question of removing the use of the function "defined".

Latest revision as of 21:27, 27 September 2020

10 XPUB2 ONLINE Michael

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