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Re:Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack by minitech on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @05:26PM (#11300810)
The point is that Slack is much easier to configure. Writing IRC notification scripts tests the limits of the “10-year-old” level of difficulty.
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Re:Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack by groovy2shoes on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @10:36PM (#11302248)
I wrote my first IRC bot in Lua at 13, so you're right, it would test the limits of 10-year-old level of difficulty.

Regardless, it's not as if there aren't upwards of a dozen of off-the-shelf IRC bots you can grab off the 'net...

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