What alot of people forget though is that mIRCScript is good for what it was designed for. I doubt it was ever mean to be a 'real' language as alot of people put it. mIRC is special because of its scripting language and I would hate for it to be eroded due to time being spent on replacing it with something else. There are other programmes like Klient, X Chat and Bersirc which support (correct me if I am wrong) languages like C, Perl, VB, Pascal and possibly TCL. Never forget that there are people, such as myself, who are not professional programmers (by that I mean people that do not do programming for a living) and as such do not have the time to aquaint themselves with other langauges.
I'm not saying that development should be halted for that reason, far from it, though threads similar to this usually end up in a debate arguing for mIRC to support a compiled language in full and if necessary, at the expense of the current scripting language, and it's something that I, for one, would never lend support to.
Surely there is scope for the current language to get further/better functionality. Who would have thought in 1995 that mIRC would support multi-server, dialogues, DLL's, colours and whatever else has been added since V2.X. It probably wasn't easy but it still happened. Even for mIRC to support an extra language or an emulation of another language, I am sure it would require alot of time and perhaps make the mirc.exe a large piece of machinery to download too.
Anyway, that's my 2 bob's worth.
