Comment by Crinkle

Thank you so much for triggering this memory.

I read a BASIC programming book when I was around 10, and the ELIZA example was hilarious and fascinating to me. I implemented several Eliza versions in secondary school as a way to learn new programming languages, and went on to study Computational Linguistics in university. Occasionally I tried to find the book and particular Eliza example but failed, and I doubt I have the book now.

When I saw the name Tim Hartnell, I knew it was him. I found the example on page 216 of Tim Hartnell's Giant Book of Computer Games.