My reasons are that the AIML language is a little primitive and I can do better by coding a chat bot myself. Coding the engine and the chat bot itself seems much more exciting as a project to me.
Secondly, I can host as many chat bots as I want on my own domain (www.superdecadegames.com) for free.
One aspect of AIML that I can do better with is the <vrai> substitutions which require an awful lot of copying and pasting of pre-existing code and can cause problems when the thing you are substituting changes or does not exist. The <that> construction makes code look a little messy overall and, as I am not afraid to get my hands dirty with some regular expressions, I should be able to produce something a little more impressive.
Well, work begins tonight.
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| Some of these should help. |
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| Goodbye, Mac. We hardly knew you! |