When I learn a new language, the first things I do is I write an IRC bot. Such a fun task. Right now my plan is to convert my good old (but still in heavy use,

When I learn a new language, the first things I do is I write an IRC bot. Such a fun task. Right now my plan is to convert my good old (but still in heavy use, with MegaHAL!) bot [0] to Haskell, while reading the book and learning the language. The current bot was my last ever Ruby project and while I take using a new language as a challenge, the Cinch [1] framework is definitely worth a try if you want to create a bot quickly. [0] https://github.com/pimeys/diskotappi https://github.com/pimeys/diskotappi [1] https://github.com/cinchrb/cinch https://github.com/cinchrb/cinch