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+Weird attempt at writing an IRC bot in Tiger. Actually mostly worked,
+by wrapping the call in a specifically designed script to handle SSL
+and the connection. The Tiger implementation only needed to respond to
+messages on input, by writing to output.
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+Design started on 6. Marts 2019.
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