Infobot

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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  infobot
       
           A {bot} that serves as a common database of information
          (often noteworthy {URL}s) for users on a {chat} system.
          Infobots often have a simple {chatbot interface}, responding
          to key-phrases, as well as to direct queries.


       
          Here, in a real conversation, the bot Purl's first response is
          triggered by the phrase "just tell me", and its second
          response is triggered by being directly asked "perlfunc?":
       
            can someone tell me what: $num9 =
                  substr($number,9,1); means
       
            eesh -- man perlfunc, look at "substr".
       
            just tell me
       
            Didn't your momma ever tell you, "Go
                  look it up in the dictionary"?!
       
            eesh -- no.  that's all we'll tell
                  you.  read the documentation.
       
            eesh -- if you haven't man pages or
                  perldoc, you can read them on the 'net.
       
            purl, perlfunc?
       
            well, perlfunc is Perl builtin
                  functions, at man perlfunc or
                  http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/doc/manual/html/pod/perlfunc.html
       
          {(http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~lenzo/infobot.html/)}.
       
          (1998-10-30)