For other uses, see
Egg drop. Eggdrop is a popular
IRC bot. It was originally written in December of 1993 by Robey Pointer, working with Jamie Rishaw, for the
EFnet channel #gayteen. Eggdrop started out as an efficient substitute for cEvin, Jamie's
IRC bot which was reaching limitations due to its script based design.Eggdrop is written in the
C programming language, and features an interface for scripts that allows the user to enhance the functionality of the
bot. The language used in the script interface is
Tcl.
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