Eliza and Fun

SPC wrote:

Yesterday I installed some CP/M stuff available for the AltairZ80 simulator of SIMH. I am checking the use of the last version of the simulator from one DEC VT220 plugged in the serial port of my laptop. And I checking in essence the PDP-11 (with Unix) and Z80 (with CP/M, MP/M and Oasis) simulators In one of the virtual disks of CP/M exists a copy of the Eliza basic program. I tried it using the MBASIC interpreter. Very funny but interesting as an historical piece of software and as what the program do by itself. But the most funny thing was to check what happened when I show the program to my daughter and son (both under eleven years old). Half and hour later I need to obligate them to close the program. Absolutely addictive. And even more when I expleained them (in simply words) some aspects related with the program. Later, I encountered myself thinking about the evolution of the games, the programs, the artificial intelligence and the computing in general during from the epoch of Eliza (or before) ot our days. And what can do a good piece of code against some excess of our days in the computing field.