Re: infobot mailing lists

[Paul L. A. <pl...@so...>]

Jonathan Hitchcock writes: 

> Is Perl the way the bot should go?  Is it the best choice?  Why?  Is
> specific choice of language a good way to go?  In today's multi-lingua
> world, should we stick to one language, or have a source-independent
> API, communicating with RPC or PB or SOAP?

One way NOT to go is C# or any other single-platform language/language
variant.  So that pretty much limits you to Perl, Java, C and C++.  All
of them have regular expression add-ons, but only Perl integrates
regexes as smoothly. 

As for RPC, PB and SOAP, those are more of a hindrance than an advantage.
Especially in this instance where the bot is running on a single computer
and communicates via IRC.  There is absolutely no need to drag those into
it and every reason not to because of bloat and security issues. 

-- 
Paul Allen
Softflare Support