Exploration Through Example

Example-driven development, Agile testing, context-driven testing, Agile programming, Ruby, and other things of interest to Brian Marick

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Fri, 25 Apr 2003

Interview with the search engine

The venerable game of picking on programs that try to talk like people is done rather well in this interview with the Ask Jeeves search engine.

Some Emacs users may not know about M-x psychoanalyze-pinhead, which hooks something quite like Weizenbaum's original Eliza program to a Zippy the Pinhead quote generator. Sample output from the middle of the conversation (Zippy speaks first):

Those aren't WINOS--that's my JUGGLER, my AERIALIST,
 my SWORD SWALLOWER, and my LATEX NOVELTY SUPPLIER!!

I don't understand.

I OWN six pink HIPPOS!!

Maybe your plans have something to do with this.

The LOGARITHM of an ISOSCELES TRIANGLE is TUESDAY WELD!!

Is it because of your life that you are going through all this?

This is a NO-FRILLS flight -- hold th' CANADIAN BACON!!

Are you afraid of that?

A little of this goes a long way...

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