Once upon a time there was a talker. This talker had lots of lazy people on it so bored people wrote bots so that the lazy people didn't have to move very far to do things.

Unfortunately, some people are really bored and write bots over and over and over again and, basically, cbot is the sixth iteration of this process and it's actually quite nice.

I had only a few things I really wanted in a bot, a list which I've built up through the iterations:

Modular

Same code base is able to perform a variety of jobs just by loading the right set of modules.

Ease of extension

As soon as I can think of another job for the bot I want to be able to only write a few lines to actually see the job on a talker.

Multi-talker

Since I'm on lots of talkers and IRC channels, I want to make sure that the same code base will have no trouble with any protocol I can code a module for.