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aidenn0 on March 13, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: Experimental chat written in Common Lisp

I think many people overestimate how complicated the IRC protocol is. A minimal IRC client is much less work than one would expect.

azrazalea on March 13, 2017 [–]

Last time I was thinking about it the number of non-standard extensions combined with there being multiple RFCs involved if you want to support more than minimal features led me not to consider it for my hobby/learning project.

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