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From: "vikki" <vikki@proweb.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] string to list?
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Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 18:32:15 +0100
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>rc irc client? sounds reasonable :)
>i wish i could find my 80-line C irc client i wrote last year for p9 (it
was
>my first project :).. come to think of it though, rc is a much better idea
>and a funnier one to implement :) wish i had a working p9 installation, i
>could've helped!

We're having a bit of a competition at work. They've got their monolithic
perl bot running. I'm trying to impress them with the plan9 version as a
learning exercise. I plan to have it do eval `{$msg} and do whatever it's
namespace will let it. They keep adding code to the perl bot and getting
deeper and deeper. Already they've had to split it in half (on my suggestion
:-) to separate information gathering and display.

>how about awk? daemonize an awk program if RC does not five you the
>utility to do it :)

 yeah that's a good idea. I didn't fancy spawning awk for every line of irc.

I did wonder one day why plan9 has any command line utilities at all apart
from bind, mount, import, unmount , cd, echo and cat.