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/me slaps erwincoumans around with a large trout

• erwincoumans 5y ago
  /whois herodoturtle :)
• theonemind 5y ago
  mIRC users. Pfft.
  • herodoturtle 5y ago
    I was 11, our home PC ran “Windows 3.11 for Workgroups”, and mIRC was my gateway to a career in software. That, and reverse engineering GORILLA.BAS :-) These days I use irssi, so am completely out of touch with mIRC. Why the “Pfft”?
    • theonemind 5y ago
      An echo of a narrow slice of time. For a while, you could /ctcp version a channel and ircII would outnumber mIRC 10:1 (then obviously, less as time went on) and mIRC didn't have any scripting capabilities at all (mIRC < 4, I think, maybe < 3) compared to pretty good scripting capabilities for ircII! ircII scripting felt vaguely C inspired, and mIRC's scripting definitely felt foreign to the UNIX/IRC culture it got attached to. I never got seriously into scripting mIRC, and the mental model might have changed, but draft 1 of adding scripting into mIRC definitely had that Rasmus Lerdorf "I don't know how to make a language at all, I'm just making something work" feel, whereas ircII scripting felt vaguely coherent from a C-ish background. Very old impressions, and mIRC scripting might've gotten good in later versions. The earliest versions of mIRC scripting definitely felt very weird.
      • herodoturtle 5y ago
        That was a mightily insightful comment, and one I wasn’t expecting. Thanks for sharing your experience. Side note: I found the Rasmus analogy particularly relatable. I’ve been building in PHP for a little over 20 years now, and despite all the hate it gets around these parts, I remain a fan.
  • p_l 5y ago
    Funnily enough, now probably biggest licensed, paying user of mirc is US DoD for use in C4 systems, with text messages on IRC handling things like arranging supporting fire...