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Anybody else started with mIRC Scripting? I did. It was cool to be able to do all sort of things, specially if you were IRCop.

Now that I think about it, every "big" program should come with an embedded scripting language. It will bring a lot of people into programming and it would make life easier for all of us. Imagine if all of the main IM clients had one.

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I did. The interesting thing was that I'd been a Computer Engineering student for about 2 years and hadn't really developed a passion for coding until some guy was being a jerk in IRC because he was good at playing trivia quizzes. I decided to ruin his fun by writing a cheat script for the game and distributing it to the other regulars in the channel who were also tired of his bragging about being smarter than everyone else just for winning at trivia. I will always be grateful to that guy (though I still maintain he was an utter ass) for helping me to find my passion for coding.

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