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

[John Fields]

I guess PerlBot is too obvious? It does everything, and most of it real
well.

HothBot!  Higher Order THinking Bot.
 On Oct 29, 2013 10:08 AM, "Tommy Butler" <dfwpm at internetalias.net> 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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