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,

Unfortunately, and as is often the case, there are many versions which makes it a bit confusing... The 1.5 code seems to be Kevin Lenzo's merge of a different more advanced bot project (blootbot) into the "infobot" line. For historic purposes, we'll stick to looking at the simpler earlier version.

The IRC Hacks article seems to reference the last "0" version (0.45.3 which is *not* the same as 0.43.5 ;) 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" and working (on perl 5.28 as of Sept 2020) version is here: