[alicebot-archcomm] My reply to Jon's thoughtful reply to: My thoughts on "Fetching Info from the Web"

[Jonathan Roewen]

> Is an overview and the current status of various implementations of
> Alice-In-Progress
>   documented somewhere?

Not that I know of.

> Gosh.  Is what I want too simplistic for current day needs?  I think what
I
> want is much simpler that what is being considered.  I don't mind having
and
> growing into a more sophisticated world, but make sure AIML can handle my
> immediate needs and level of understanding first.  Is that unreasonable? I
> do allow for the possibility that it is unreasonable.  But I will ask
> anyone who
> takes this position to shed more light on that stance.  I want AIML to
> accommodate any web developer who has ever sent and fetched data to and
> from a simple .cgi script.  I  want to hear him say  ... ah-ha! ... I
> understand this.
>   It's EASY.  I can use this "RIGHT NOW".

Hmm, I thinking I see the light, maybe ;-) So you'd just want something kind
of like a cgi script way of doing things? Send a request to the interpreter
(prolly via a form), get it's output, and send that to the client? Which is
close to what J-Alice already did, except it used a template, which couldn't
be changed at runtime, but was somewhat customisable.

However, I'm sure there is more to it than I am interpreting at present =(

> If anyone else out there finds this approach interesting, then speak up
and
> I will take my best shot at putting together my dream syntax for this
> functionality,
> complete with 8 x 10 color glossy photos (just kidding about the photos).

I'm interested, just apparently not on the same page.

Jon