> Now, now...that is unfair. I was referring to writing in pure Perl vs pure
> Java.
>
> Of course, C apis and pre-written daemon integration makes the glue
> language a moot point (and favors Perl actually).
Well, mine is pure perl. it can speak the protocol to integrate with a
pre-written C irc daemon, but you don't *have* to use it with one.
> BTW, is select() is still broken in Win32 Perl? It was 6 months ago (I
> suspect because IO operates differently on win32) so you'd limit your
> platform too.
Last I heard, perl's select() under win32 worked for sockets, but not
for pipes or ttys. Anyway, limiting myself to platforms where select()
works doesn't strike me as a bad thing...
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