Oh everythign thats not done in C is utterly stupid for you isn't it codemaster...
Not at all, I have no problems with mIRC scripts. However, I do believe if something is better implemented in another faster language (and I believe this is), then it should be implemented in a compiled langauge. For example I laugh when I see "mIRC HTTPd" and things of that nature. That might be fine if you are running a website with 5 users, but do you think google.com could thrive if it were run from an mIRC script? I doubt it. Same holds here, if there are 2 people holding 2 AIM conversations, an mIRC script is fine, if there are 100 people holding 500 conversations, well then it is no longer fine.
How many of those programs are open source?
Umm... all of them.
Anyway, I also figure I can script in mIRC in an object oriented manner (no, not quite, but as close as I can..) and this is the make or break for my school of thoguht at the moment.
So you mean you've developed a technique to make the mIRC script version even slower by implementing a pseudo-oop layer?
iMIRC. Hrm. brb looking for it - ok didn't find it on mircsripts.org and 30 seconds is all i want to bother to look for.
As I said, it's not an mIRC script, so why would you expect to find it on mircscripts.org? IMIRC in fact is a Perl program, and if you used Google (searching for "IMIRC IRC" finds it really fast), you would have known that.
Anyway, have you ever seen the adverts for "Miricle Blade III"'s? Late night infomercial - they are the coolest knives i've ever seen... I'm glad no one wiht your "don't reinvent it" attitude was around when we started out in the stone age
Umm why are they so great? When was the last time you said "I need to saw through a steel pipe... better get a steak knife!" I'd much rather use my $5 steak knive which works perfect for cutting steak, and use my electric reciprocating saw when I need to cut a pipe. But maybe thats just me, maybe everyone else in the world reaches into the kitchen drawer to pull out a knive when they need to cut a pipe...
oh well your probably right tho