I had started doing something similar, but in C, and with no daemons or additional sockets (ie. the program outputs what happens on the channels on stdout, and

I had started doing something similar, but in C, and with no daemons or additional sockets (ie. the program outputs what happens on the channels on stdout, and says what arrives on stdin). It works fine enough for me to use it on trusted channels to write easy bots, show off some programs or whatever, but it's not finished, clean, robust or secure. See https://gitorious.org/irctk/irctk/blobs/master/README https://gitorious.org/irctk/irctk/blobs/master/README for some examples, and https://gitorious.org/irctk https://gitorious.org/irctk for the actual program (but you probably don't want to use it yet).