On 10/27/2010 08:38 AM, Royce Williams wrote:
> Tim Gibney wrote, on 10/26/2010 9:56 AM:
>> I didn't even know it existed ... which is why it is quiet.
>> ... I have not used IRC in almost a decade. It is very 1990ish.
>
> Don't discount the power of lowest-common-denominator, simple
> technology. :-)
>
> Lots of realtime debugging and development of major FOSS OSes and
> applications are done over IRC, as is realtime Wikipedia policing.
>
> Royce
In it's defense.. IRC is hardly simple :) Huge networks operated by non profit
organizations or simply like minded people that are peered together to reduce the amount
of intra-server traffic by consolidating updates into large packets.. it's mighty
impressive IMHO.
However the interface and protocol for the client is quite simple and incredibly easy to
interface to from whatever OS/Language you prefer. I've used private IRC servers in the
past as a message bus for robotics. It worked well and I eventually moved off to my own
IRC like server that dealt with passing binary packed structs. So I guess IRC was good
inspiration for that project as well.
Long live IRC!!! Long live projects like Bitlbee that are IRC gateways to the IM world!!
Long live caching IRC proxies!!!
- Shane
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