[DFW.pm] What would you call a bot that does everything?

[Nathan Dyck]

Jack (of all trades)?

On 10/29/2013 10:08 AM, Tommy Butler wrote:
> Omnibot?  Rosie?  I'm talking about an IRC bot that accepts as many 
> plugins as you want to add. /*What would you call it?*/
>
> I'm creating Moose roles to add to the core mongerbot that I 
> originally wrote a few days ago, so I can effectively write "plugins" 
> for the bot instead of writing a bot for every task (thesaurus bot, 
> dictionary bot, spelling bot, wolfram bot...) This is all actually WAY 
> easier than it sounds.
>
> I'm doing this because it's fun, and because I want to use it as an 
> educational opportunity to:
>
>  1. present how easy object oriented Perl is (and how much easier it
>     makes your programming)
>  2. introduce Moose and "postmodern" Perl (current best practices)
>  3. discuss the use of roles vs inheritance in OOP
>
> Don't worry.  I'm not going to force this onto anyone who doesn't want 
> it -- there are many out there who just do not like OOP _at all_, 
> which is your right as a red blooded Perl Monger.  All I'm doing is 
> creating example code that we can talk about and extend if you like. 
> Plugins, maaaan!
>
> But I have a fundamental problem here: a bot without a name is a sad 
> bot.  I'm not good at naming robots.
>
> --Tommy Butler
>
>
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