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Originally Posted by BooksForABuck
Back a million years ago when my Vic-20 was still a current machine, I typed in a basic program (from Compute! Magazine--a few of my fellow old-timers will remember them) that turned the Vic into a music composer. It composed new music that sounded like Bach (it sounded pretty good to me). Even with advances in computer technology since, I haven't heard of any computer-created symphonies taking the world by storm and I KNOW that will be easier than composing the Great American Novel.
Even if computers will, someday, be able to write great fiction, I'm pretty sure a guy who thinks romance novels are all about body parts isn't going to be the one who programs them.
Rob Preece
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Actually, even older, was a program called Eliza or Doctor that did psychoanalysis for free. It is built into emacs in lisp and was available on early home computers in the 70's in basic. The first copy I saw as on a Datapoint 2000 terminal. Lots of people claimed to be helped or at least impressed.
Dale