mIRC having more functionality than XChat?
I find this very hard to believe; unless you're comparing XChat on Windows to mIRC. XChat on Linux, in my opinion, has a lot more functionality than mIRC on Windows. Just two examples are: you can script XChat in Perl (a lot more powerful than mIRC's scripting language) and you can extend XChat through plug-ins.
mIRC is a wonderful program; but, generalizing like that is just plain arrogant. Oh ... and the comment on stability is subjective and just as arrogant.
