Following my repeat of cat Jimmy_Hoffa and similar UNIX/AI
oldies (September 1994), Frank Muennemann of Varian dares me to
relate his own AI experiments. Muennemann has been typing make
love on various platforms with riveting results:
I think the classic response is the one I get from dgux, hpux
and Microsft NMAKE. This also seems like the most appropriately
old-fashioned:
Make: Don't know how to make love. Stop.
Microsoft NMAKE adds that it's a "fatal error U1073" to not
know how to make "love."
On my more adventuresome Linux-powered workstation (which has
GNU make), I get:
make: *** No rule to make target 'love'. Stop.
It's open to speculation how target love relates to puppy
love, true love, and what Linux might do with its rule if it had
one.
The SunOS make seems despondent about its inadequacies:
make: Fatal error: Don't know how to make target 'love'
In a similar vein, Jim Carroll of e-Commerce Inc. tells me of
a TCP/IP connectivity tool that uses the examples hostname "elvis"
and then fulfills our wildest dreams:
$ ping elvis
elvis is alive