Wow, definitely wasn’t expecting this! Very cool I think it’s important to not be “using a library” since the test case is hopefully that the protocol is easy

Wow, definitely wasn’t expecting this! Very cool I think it’s important to not be “using a library” since the test case is hopefully that the protocol is easy enough to get something barebones with even super baseline tools. Your bash script obviously matches this requirement My reference here is the excellent Haskell Wiki “Build tour own IRC bot”. Really captures the simplicity of the protocol https://wiki.haskell.org/Roll_your_own_IRC_bot https://wiki.haskell.org/Roll_your_own_IRC_bot