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As I get older what to do with books collected over a lifetime is something I more often wonder about.

Thank you for the links. Lovely online ELIZA. I appreciate you responding.

I agree with you. I think the presence of START is accidental and is not supposed to be part of the script. The ELIZA code uses a Slip function called LISTRD to read the script rul…

Weizenbaum says the list must be there, but may be empty: "Finally, the script writer must begin his script with a list, i.e., a message enclosed in parentheses, which contains the…

That's really cool. (The paper uses the palidrome example to try to demonstrate how a Turing machine might be encoded in an ELIZA script.) ELIZA scripts must begin with some openin…

Hasn't this comment been made 100 times before?

Well, I believe you get more privileges in HN when you have more points. And it makes you look more attractive.

Ha! Well, I have 52 karma now. So I'm enjoying the view before the next downvote comes along. :-)

Thank you. I'll do my best.

All I did was submit this Ask HN here. I've not posted a link to it anywhere. As I write the post has 13 points and I have 51 points. Again. I'm sure my life would be much better i…

Thank you. So for example, and I realise this isn't a great news story, this Ask HN post of mine is showing me it has 6 points (upvotes?), but my karma is still 51.

Awesome, back to 51 points. Is it because I'm talking about karma and get automatically downvoted? I don't usually mention karma and yet still my little 1 point doesn't get added t…

I posted one yesterday. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20722765

I see after your comment I've jumped to 52 points. Usually, I write a short reply on some thread and although my post shows me "1 point by anthay" my karma doesn't change. I'm sure…

I post on HN infrequently. When I do it says something like "1 point for anthay." But I've been on 51 points for what feels like years. Just curious.

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If you sum all the numbers in your input do you get the right answer?

I did the AoC last year for the first time and was amazed how quickly some participants solved the puzzles, e.g. http://howtowriteaprogram.blogspot.com/2017/12/advent-of-cod... )

Sadly, I couldn't find it on archive.org.

It's probably a bit late for this reply, but... Another clumsy workaround is to use operator(). Again, standard C++ and this one has access to local variables: int g() { int x, y; …

In the past I've sometimes used standard C++ local structs to nest functions. E.g.: int f() { struct local { static int nested_func() { return 123; } }; return local::nested_func()…

I made a basic LISP-like JSON-like thing: http://loonfile.info

Will you permit a couple more quotes apropos taste? "Good judgement is the result of experience and experience is the result of bad judgement." - Mark Twain and "To write a good pr…

It was a private sale to a US company. I believe it was for an amount many times that figure.