Eggdrop is apparently some kind of IRC script thing which brings the niceness of tcl scripting.
The Tclers Chat is occasionally visited by some poor lost eggdropper who has bumped into tcl because of his or her desire to do something in Eggdrop. There seems to be no way to dissuade them, because apparently whatever eggdrop community there is doesn't provide much support, and for the most part they have difficulty grasping the concept that Tcl isn't Eggdrop (much as English isn't Hunter S. Thompson.)
Tclers can't, with the best will in the world, help these lost eggdroppers, as very few Tclers are also Eggdroppers, and apparently the converse is also true.
If there were more Eggdroppers who were also Tclers, that might be a good thing for Tcl. After all, we were all n00bs once, and people have to start somewhere, and if Eggdropping is a way into Tcl, that's good - fresh meat.
It's kind of interesting that there are so few Tclers who are into Eggdrop. Precisely none, as far as I can tell. Why is that? I wonder whether it's because Eggdrop is not a very good or interesting Tcl system. Perhaps it's that Eggdrop isn't an interesting application to most Tclers, but I think that's too great a coincidence.
I would like to suggest that someone (not me :) throw together a quick replacement for Eggdrop, and that we collectively try to undertake its support. It oughtn't to be too hard, or too onerous.
I think, to effect some kind of connection between the two communities of interest, there needs to be a gesture from the Tcl communities. Mainly because I think the Tcl community has more ability to make the gesture and establish the communication.
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