[net.followup] SHRDLU and other old programs from the MIT AI lab

gumby@mit-eddie.UUCP (David Vinayak Wallace) (03/08/84)

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