Eliza in GnuCOBOL (2017)

Why linking to that .lst ? It&#x27;s some strange output and contains error messages. The source is here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sourceforge.net&#x2F;p&#x2F;open-cobol&#x2F;contrib&#x2F;514&#x2F;tree&#x2F;&#x2F;trunk&#x2F;samples&#x2F;eliza&#x2F;eliza.cbl" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sourceforge.net&#x2F;p&#x2F;open-cobol&#x2F;contrib&#x2F;514&#x2F;tree&#x2F;&#x2F;trunk...</a><p>and I&#x27;d like to know if the source compiles.

The author, Arnold Trembley, tells me (reposted with permission):<p>I have a link on my website:<p><pre><code> https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.arnoldtrembley.com </code></pre> for an executable download for Eliza in GnuCOBOL that runs on Windows 7 and higher.<p>I also have GnuCOBOL compilers available for download at:<p><pre><code> https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.arnoldtrembley.com&#x2F;GnuCOBOL.htm</code></pre>

For everyone who also had not heard of Eliza: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;ELIZA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;ELIZA</a><p>It is a chat bot from the 60s that acts as a therapist.

There was a Lisp interpreter written in COBOL on the HN front page today. An option for Eliza in COBOL might have been Eliza on Lisp on COBOL.

Gnucobol formerly opencobol uses c as an intermediate language and offer nonstandard functionality to link&#x2F;call arbitrary c libraries. This of course opens the door to lots of peculiar “in cobol” apps.