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- From: dougmc@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Doug McLaren)
- Subject: Re: VMS bot stuff
- Organization: Doug's House of Disco
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- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 16:37:07 GMT
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- In article <92255.1858523TANVOZ@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU> never tell me the odds <3TANVOZ@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU> writes:
- >Okay, by now we all know you can write a bot in Unix, and in C in vms,
- >but here's another related question... is it possible to write a VMS bot
- >in REXX? Seems to me that that'd be the easy way for generally
- >computer-language-illiterate people (like myself).
- >
- >Come to think of it... I really would like an answer to this for myself...
- >I briefly had a bot in Unix, but now am chained to a VMS acct....
-
- Bottom line ... you can probably write your bot in any language you want.
- C, Perl, Lisp, REXX, Basic, Ada, Modula, Pascal, Fortran, Cobol, Forth ...
- take your pick. Of course, some languages may be a little harder to write
- a bot in than others ...
-
- Contrary to popular belief, one CAN write a decent bot in IRCII scripts.
- (Hint #1 ... Read it once, and then throw Baloo's 'botdoc' file in the trash
- ...) It may be somewhat limited in what it can do, but it's specifically
- designed for IRC, and allows one to write a bot very quickly, even starting
- from scratch. And with the proper programming, it can do most of the things
- the bots written in C or Perl can do. And it's also quite simple to use IRCII
- as a front end to a program written in another language, so your bot will be
- a hybird of both languages ...
-
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