[DFW.pm] Is Perl Like Shell Script?

[Tommy Butler]

So I wrote an irc bot <https://github.com/dfwperl/dfwbot>, tested it out
several times, and put it up on github in all of 2 hours this
afternoon.  It's built on Bot::BasicBot
<https://metacpan.org/pod/Bot::BasicBot>.  Bot::BasicBot is *gasp* built
on POE <https://metacpan.org/pod/POE>.  /*This bot is neat and I think
this would be very fun to extend.*/

I would love play around with this concept together -- to use git/github
to clone, fork, and hack together our own individual bots and try them
out in real time together at the next meeting.  We could make them talk
to each other, do spell checks, wolfram alpha lookups, shorten URLs,
fetch stock performance stats, or any number of things.

What do you think?  Feel free to disagree.

--Tommy Butler

On 10/25/2013 03:24 PM, John Fields wrote:
>
> Prolly POE.  And yes using an event-driven manager framework to call a
> IRC module is probably over kill.
>
> :)
>
> On Oct 25, 2013 3:21 PM, "Stephen Wylie" <stev-o at u.northwestern.edu
> <mailto:stev-o at u.northwestern.edu>> wrote:
>
>     AOE... are you talking ATA over Ethernet?  Age of Empires?  The
>     secret of the Alpha Phi fraternity?
>
>     Clueless & floundering on Google,
>     Stephen
>
>
>     On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 2:01 PM, A.J. Maurin <coyo at darkdna.net
>     <mailto:coyo at darkdna.net>> wrote:
>
>         Well BASHing together an IRC bot out of netcat and
>         quick-and-dirty oneliners of sed and awk are easy for me,
>         because I'm used to it.
>
>         Anything beyond a quick one-liner of Perl looks daunting to me.
>
>         I dislike using standard libraries. To me, it's learning how
>         to use other people's code. Reinventing the wheel my butt.
>
>
>         On 10/23/2013 12:00 PM, John Fields wrote:
>>
>>         Shaun, Net::IRC is deprecated. I KNOW!  Says try Bot::BasicBot
>>
>>         Alex, look at this BasicBot page and let us know how
>>         difficult it looks!  Not very compared to BASHing it out. :)
>>
>>         http://blog.rajatpandit.com/2008/02/25/writing-an-irc-bot/
>>
>>         Writing an IRC bot from scratch in the next Monger meeting
>>         sounds like fun.  We can review the random password generator
>>         code progress too. What say Ye?  (Futurama Bot reference...
>>         Hehehe)
>>
>>         On Oct 20, 2013 4:53 PM, "A.J. Maurin" <coyo at darkdna.net
>>         <mailto:coyo at darkdna.net>> wrote:
>>
>>             ^_^
>>
>>             I'm sad that it isn't every week, but I suppose there's a
>>             lot more that at Dallas Makerspace than Hump Day Mongering.
>>
>>             Yeah, people said I was insane for writing that script, a
>>             Bash shell script IRC bot that used netcat.
>>
>>             My response was "meow." I can't believe I lost that
>>             thumbdrive.
>>
>>             On 10/20/2013 11:30 AM, Tommy Butler wrote:
>>
>>                 We hold Perl Mongers on the second Wednesday of each
>>                 month, so we will meet next on 11/13/13. It generally
>>                 works out to be somewhere around the hump day of each
>>                 month ;-)
>>
>>                 The IRC bot script that's being discussed sounds like
>>                 lots of fun!
>>

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