Bip or irssi with screen

quote from the laconica2IRC perl script comments:

Is "bip" better than irssi in screen?


 * 1) I wanted my own IRC user "say" the output, and that part was very easy
 * 2) because I use Bip, an IRC proxy that supports multiple clients on one irc
 * 3) server connection. This script was just going to be another client, and that
 * 4) is why I added password authentication. Bip is available in Debian and is
 * 5) very handy : I usually have an IRC client at home, one in the office,
 * 6) occasionnaly a CGI-IRC, rarely a mobile client and now this script - and to
 * 7) the dwellers of my favorite IRC channel there is no way to tell. And
 * 8) whichever client I choose, I never missing anything thanks to logging and
 * 9) replay on login. Screen with a command-line IRC client provides part of this
 * 10) functionnality, but the zero maintainance Bip does so much more and is so
 * 11) reliable that one has to wonder if my friends cling to Irssi and Screen out
 * 12) of sheer traditionalism.