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

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.