Wow, this brings back memories... I was building an IM bot back in 2006 and AIML was something that was suggested to me to "look into". I ended up deciding aga

Wow, this brings back memories... I was building an IM bot back in 2006 and AIML was something that was suggested to me to "look into". I ended up deciding against it since the project took a turn that required less AI and more "specific response to specific command". But, wow, did we go through a large phase where the "XML Hammer" was being used everywhere resulting in bizarre languages with XML syntax that could have been far more easily written using a less structured DSL.