[terminalcommand]

This was a very cool read. Programmers were programmers even back in the day of Mark I.

It is cool to see that they dabbled in natural language processing back then. This is years before Eliza and they were working on generating English prose based on English grammar. Very impressive!

The music generation program they wrote is equally impressive. The recording that was playing shows that they were adept enough to time events in the computer so good that they could playback songs. This was back in the early 1950s.

[thaliaarchi]

This was also a year before Mad Libs was invented in 1953, using the same template-filling style.