"Please don't assume Lisp is only useful for Animation and Graphics, AI, Bioinformatics, B2B and Ecommerce, Data Mining, EDA/Semiconductor applications, Expert Systems, Finance, Intelligent Agents, Knowledge Management, Mechanical CAD, Modeling and Simulation, Natural Language, Optimization, Research, Risk Analysis, Scheduling, Telecom, and Web Authoring just because these are the only things they happened to list."
While in high school, he saw output from one of the guess the animal pseudo-artificial intelligence (AI) games then popular. He considered implementing a version of the program in BASIC, but once at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), instead he implemented it in several dialects of Lisp, including Maclisp.
Kent Pitman's Lisp Eliza from MIT-AI's ITS History Project (sites.google.com)
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I like how the disclaimer went humble bragging about the range of usage.
He left out Guessing Animals!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Pitman
Kent Pitman's Lisp Eliza from MIT-AI's ITS History Project (sites.google.com)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39373567
https://sites.google.com/view/elizagen-org
https://climatejustice.social/@kentpitman/111236824217096297
https://web.archive.org/web/20131102031307/http://open.salon...
https://youtu.be/hHNDZnxiwlE?t=740
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38402813