Actual IRC commands for chat commands available?

Hey Barry, thanks for the info. So you are saying to use this?

PRIVMSG #<chan> :.delete <id>

What’s the benefit of dot-commands vs slash-commands?

Anyway, I was hoping to find some information on whether or not there are “proper” IRC command alternatives for these slash/dot-commands. I’ve clarified the original question a bit. This is mainly out of curiosity, by the way. Sending the slash-commands seems to work just fine.