Infobot
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Infobot is a script, written in the PERL programming language by Kevin Lenzo. It's an example of a chatbot,
- Wikipedia article
- Published in 1998 in the PERL Journal 3. Republished in Games, diversions, and PERL culture.
- Described in Run an Infobot, in IRC Hacks, Paul Mutton. 2004.
There are many versions...
The IRC Hacks article seems to reference the last "0" version, 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".
The "patched" version is here: