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Eggdrop is a popular IRC bot and the oldest that is still being maintained. [5] [6] [7] It was originally written by Robey Pointer in December 1993 to help manage and protect the EFnet channel #gayteen; one Eggdrop bot version was named Valis. [8] [9] [10] Eggdrop was originally intended to help manage and protect channels from takeover attempts.
The Tcl programming language was created in the spring of 1988 by John Ousterhout while he was working at the University of California, Berkeley. [14] [15] Originally "born out of frustration", [11] according to the author, with programmers devising their own languages for extending electronic design automation (EDA) software and, more specifically, the VLSI design tool Magic, which was a ...
Rexx (restructured extended executor) is a high-level programming language developed at IBM by Mike Cowlishaw. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Both proprietary and open source Rexx interpreters exist for a wide range of computing platforms , and compilers exist for IBM mainframe computers . [ 8 ]
Expect is an extension to the Tcl scripting language written by Don Libes. [2] The program automates interactions with programs that expose a text terminal interface. Expect, originally written in 1990 for the Unix platform, has since become available for Microsoft Windows and other systems.
An IRC bot is a set of scripts or an independent program that connects to Internet Relay Chat as a client, and so appears to other IRC users as another user. An IRC bot differs from a regular client in that instead of providing interactive access to IRC for a human user, it performs automated functions.
Lua scripts may load extension modules using require, [20] just like modules written in Lua itself, or with package.loadlib. [22] When a C library is loaded via require ( 'foo' ) Lua will look for the function luaopen_foo and call it, which acts as any C function callable from Lua and generally returns a table filled with methods.
In computing, a script is a relatively short and simple set of instructions that typically automate an otherwise manual process. The act of writing a script is called scripting . A scripting language or script language is a programming language that is used for scripting.
Executor is a software application that allows Motorola 68000-based classic Mac OS programs to be run on various x86-based operating systems. Executor was created by ARDI (Abacus Research and Development, Inc.). As of 2005, Executor development has been indefinitely postponed. As of 2008, it was published as open source software. [1]