Most sophisticated software ever written?

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2 total messages Started by menti... Wed, 16 May 2018 21:14

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Author: menti...
Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 21:14

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The Quora website is asking for answers at 

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-most-sophisticated-piece-of-software-code-ever-written 

and various Netizens have volunteered such candidates as 
- the Stuxnet worm; 
- Early versions of Microsoft Word; 
- the Linux kernel; 
- spreadsheets-graphics-database in 1983 when memory was just 640K; 
- Hotspot implementation of the Java Virtual Machine
- IBM z/OS; 
- TeX written by Donald Knuth; 
- Chess for the Sinclair ZX81 - 1K ZX Chess; etc. 

For twenty-five years (since July of 1993) Yours Truly Mentifex here has been coding an AI Mind, first in REXX on the Commodore Amiga, then in Forth on a computer from FreePC.com (they gave away 40,000 free Windows 98 machines), then in JavaScript for Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE), and more recently in Perl. I hereby claim that the artificial Mind at 

http://ai.neocities.org/MsIeAi.html 

is a serious contender for “the most sophisticated software” because the AI Mind can think and reason with concepts in natural language. As of three days ago, you can ask the AI “what do you think” and it will tell you. 

Respectfully submitted by Mentifex

Re: Most sophisticated software ever written?

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Author: Andy Burns
Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 21:22

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menti...@gmail.com wrote:

> The Quora website

... is a festering pile of questions which nobody with any sense will 
waste time answering, therefore the only answers there are also 
festering piles ...

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