21:34 <dpg> what's the easiest way to get a bot to join a channel, say something, then quit irc

21:34 <dpg> can someone point me to an intro or something? I couldn't find any examples in the docs.

21:34 <dominikh> there are examples in the examples/ directory

21:35 <catepillar> the join_part will be a good one to look at

21:36 <catepillar> hello is a good one for hte message to show

21:36 <catepillar> and the command to quit will be @bot.quit

21:41 <dpg> dominikh: I'll go back and check it out. thanks catepillar.

21:42 <dpg> also, awesome job and thanks for the code.

21:42 <dominikh> :) you're welcome

21:53 <dominikh> completely unrelated: this is what it looks like when the creator of a Ruby IRC framework gets tired of Ruby and writes an IRC framework in Go instead: http://sprunge.us/hhZX

22:00 <leftylink> I might be interested in such a thing

22:00 <leftylink> well I still liek ruby I guess, but I do want a statically typed language that I like to add to the toolbox

22:01 <leftylink> I'm unhappy about C++ header files

22:01 <dominikh> after about 1.5 years with it, I can wholeheartedly recommend Go ;)

22:03 <leftylink> hmm, I don't believe it has stuff like map and filter, does it. I'd need to get over that

22:03 <dominikh> it's a lot closer to imperative than functional programming. and no, there's no map and filter.

22:03 <dominikh> for loops work great, too, though ;)

22:04 <leftylink> I don't think their type system expresses such a concept ( (A->B) -> [A] -> [B] )

22:04 <leftylink> however the no-inheritance type system is cool shit

22:04 <leftylink> I like that bit

22:05 <dominikh> there are no generics in Go, so you get rid of most of the map/filter/... stuff

22:06 <nkr> dominikh: hey cinch is really cool! thanks

22:06 <dominikh> nkr: you're welcome :)

22:06 <nkr> Im coding my first bot lol

22:07 <dominikh> I'd suggest running fast and far and spending your time on more valuable things ;)

22:08 <nkr> haha

22:10 <dominikh> leftylink: for what it's worth, there's the Go tour, which is akin to _whys "try ruby" thing from back then. introduction to the language with an interactive editor

22:10 <dominikh> so if you ever want to look into it, that's about 30 minutes of your life

22:16 <onewheelskyward> no-inheritance? I've done that already. :)

22:17 <dominikh> good old C.

22:17 <onewheelskyward> Go reads to me like a throwback

22:17 <onewheelskyward> It's very C, with a dash of pascal thrown in for fun.

22:18 <dominikh> it's C, mixed with alef and limbo :)