infobot

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infobot - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  infobot
  
     <chat> A bot that serves as a common database of information
     (often noteworthy URLs) 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?":
  
      <eesh> can someone tell me what: $num9 =
             substr($number,9,1); means
  
      <Tkil> eesh -- man perlfunc, look at "substr".
  
      <eesh> just tell me
  
      <purl> Didn't your momma ever tell you, "Go
             look it up in the dictionary"?!
  
      <Tkil> eesh -- no.  that's all we'll tell
             you.  read the documentation.
  
      <Tkil> eesh -- if you haven't man pages or
             perldoc, you can read them on the 'net.
  
      <Tkil> purl, perlfunc?
  
      <purl> well, perlfunc is Perl builtin
             functions, at man perlfunc or
             http://perl.com/CPAN-local/doc/manual/html/pod/perlfunc.html
  
     (http://cs.cmu.edu/~lenzo/infobot.html/).
  
     (1998-10-30)