Hi sergi publish you code! It sound exciting.
Stef > I´ve been writing a bot for a while now, with the purpose of learning proper > Smalltalk and OOP idioms/techniques (I´ve been using C-ish languages for a > long time now, and I´m trying to cure myself :D). I must say that the process > has been quite enlightening so far, I never really understood OOP until now. Super! Keep going reading and coding. Did you read Smalltalk by example. > > So far I have a bot that works fine for my needs, but I´d like to contribute > back, so I´ll just list some thoughts and you can comment on them. All > constructive criticism and pointers on how to do them are welcome! > > I´m writing in on Pharo 3. > > I want to split the code I currently have in 3 parts: > - part 1: a couple of classes IRCClient/ZdcSecureIRCClient mirroring > POP3Client/ZdcSecurePOP3Client, with the intention of contributing them back > to Pharo > - part 2: an IRCBot framework, which I´ll likely name 'Chromia', to be > released under MIT license too > - part 3: my own bot using that framework, which would add all the extras > like games > Does that sound reasonable? > > At this point my code is quite messy, so I´m deciding whether to put it on > SThub or not yet. > > I´m depending on http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~PharoExtras/JSON for reading > some JSON file from a website. > > Though it´s not high on my priority list, I wouldn´t mind making it as > portable to other dialects as possible, too. > > > Cheers, > Sergi
