Other bots we should 'borrow' ideas from:

• inspiration for skybot
• too much magic
• not easy enough to change

• horribly bloated plugin structure, each plugin has its own directory and 4 files (unit testing for plugins, what?)

• interesting, but lots of magic

• very simple, not multithreaded
• poor use of regexes, CloudBot has much better parsing, but it implements many more irc control codes
• can convert irc colors to vt100 escape codes - should implement this
• autoreconnect

• can handle multiple servers, but not multithreaded
• ugly modules
• too many external dependencies
• attempt at NLP

• ruby
• lots of plugins