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From: gumby@mit-eddie.UUCP (David Vinayak Wallace)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: SHRDLU and other old programs from the MIT AI lab
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Date: Thu, 8-Mar-84 08:59:08 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar  8 08:59:08 1984
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As someone who rummages through old programs here, let me tell you that
contacting the ai lab will do you no good.  SHRDLU was written in 1970;
therefore its sources may safely be considered lost in antiquity.

It's not clear to me what good the sources would do you; maclisp in 1970
had just aquired function cells; code written in it often looked strange
by modern standards and most certainly would not come even close to
running.  I tried resurecting a 5-year-old maclisp program once
(Rabbit), and could not do it.

You can send Terry arpanet mail at su-score (winograd@score) if you
think it might help.

david