Originally Posted By: FroggieDaFrog
As scripters, we often forget that mIRC is an IRC CLIENT that has a scripting language; Not a scripting language built into an IRC client.


Exactly. Scripting in mIRC is meant to help with IRC. Yes, it does offer the ability to do other things like making games, but the main purpose is to improve your IRC experience. It does that very well. There is no need for adding yet another scripting language to the mix.

Now. Most of the time people ask for other languages to be added (it happens every so often), it is because they know how to script/program in that language and do not know how to script in mIRC's scripting language. They basically want to use what they know and not have to learn something new. That is hardly a good reason to request other languages. mIRC can already make use of Javascript as mentioned and you can use programming languages like C# to create DLLs that mIRC can use. So you already have limited support for those languages. That is enough for what mIRC is meant to do. If you want to make something more complicated, then it probably has no purpose in IRC and you should make it separate from IRC.