Hi Brenton do you know of any tutorials on nimrod, other than the ones on the nimrod website, for eg, i would love it if you explain your irc bot . i learnt bash because of slitaz, what started as trying to make packages ended up teaching me a lot and i now run several scripts which use /dev/tcp in bash, to troubleshoot and map my ospf network , but it is slow that is why i would like to learn nimrod, ( have never been able to pickup ruby/ python etc)
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 5:22 AM, Brenton Edgar Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > I am not the perfect person to argue for Nimrod, but here's the thing: > > All the arguements against Nimrod are worst case scenarios. Scenarios > me and Aleksej have commited ourselves from ever happening. Yet more > naysayers come at us with the same story, but with different spins on > it. > > So let's just cut to the heart of the matter. You don't want to see > change. You don't want to see SliTaz evolve or become better. You are > against the very heart of the Temporary Autonomous Zone. You are > against SliTaz itself! Bold or Totally wrong statement? Maybe. The > point is we're argueing this to death. > > Do you know why I use SliTaz? The real reason and not the one I tell > other people? Because it's Beautiful and I Love it. They say the most > beautiful work of art is beautiful because it's imperfect. This is why > I Love SliTaz. It IS imperfect and I enjoy the fact that I can help > make it better. This is my kind of FUN. > > Aleksej wants me to tell you all why I love Nimrod. I chose Nimrod for > the same reasons I chose SliTaz: > > First, for what it could do. I tested it by writing a simple IRC Bot > using two examples I found while googling a year ago. I was surprised > how easy it was. Even easier than writing the same code in Python. And > it was only 25 lines. Then I tried to write a simple terminal based IRC > client in 34 lines of code and it worked! Then I wrote a simple MUD > client in 29 lines of code. The last two where TREADED programs to. I > was hooked. > > Secondly, the community. Araq, AmryKid, dom96 and Tasser were helpful > through it all. Hell, dom96 even implemented an IRC library because of > the bots I was writing in Nimrod. Using that library, I can now write > the same IRC Bot in as little as 12 lines of code. 12 LINES of code. > Can you do the same in Bash Script? > > Thirdly, It was fun. Yes, that's my reasoning and I'm sticking to it. > Using Nimrod is fun. It takes some of the idiocy out of programming and > makes it an enjoyable experience. Like Richard Branson once said: "If > it stops being fun, then I'll stop doing it". He's a Billionaire for a > reason.. > > And Forthly, I fell in Love with it. I have passion for the things I > Love and I will fight tooth and nail for it's inclusion. To have Nimrod > included in SliTaz is like having two Loves of mine combined. I LOVE > the idea. > > But yeah, to quote Araq and Linus Torvalds: "Rather shut up and show me > the code". I challenge all of you naysayers to show me a better > solution than Nimrod that equals it in preformance. You can't? Well, > there you have it. > > -- > SliTaz GNU/Linux Mailing list - http://www.slitaz.org/ > -- Thanx and regd's. Allan. http://tamahatta.com -- SliTaz GNU/Linux Mailing list - http://www.slitaz.org/
