[DFW.pm] Is Perl Like Shell Script?

[A.J. Maurin]

Sounds like fun to me.

Tommy Butler wrote:
> 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.