On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Alan Thomas wrote:
Sorry for the misunderstanding. Honestly, Java would be a great language
for what wget does.
Perhaps, but not for where wget is used: on numerous platforms as a
stand-alone downloadable tool, including on embedded and small-CPU devices.
Environments
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Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
Mauro Tortonesi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I vote we stick with C. Java is slower and more prone to environmental
problems.
not really. because of its JIT compiler, Java is often as fast as
C/C++, and sometimes even
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David Ginger wrote:
On Friday 30 November 2007 03:38:54 Micah Cowan wrote:
David Ginger wrote:
On Friday 30 November 2007 01:03:06 Micah Cowan wrote:
David Ginger wrote:
What I'm looking at wget for is saving streamed mp3 from a radio
station,
On Friday 30 November 2007 14:48:07 David Ginger wrote:
what do you think?
Python.
i was asking what you guys think of my write a prototype using a dynamic
language then incrementally rewrite everything in C proposal, and not trying
to start yet another programming language flame war ;-)
On Friday 30 November 2007 11:59:45 Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
Mauro Tortonesi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I vote we stick with C. Java is slower and more prone to environmental
problems.
not really. because of its JIT compiler, Java is often as fast as
C/C++, and sometimes even significantly
On Friday 30 November 2007 03:38:54 Micah Cowan wrote:
David Ginger wrote:
On Friday 30 November 2007 01:03:06 Micah Cowan wrote:
David Ginger wrote:
What I'm looking at wget for is saving streamed mp3 from a radio
station, crazy but true.. such is life.
Isn't that already possible
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, Mauro Tortonesi wrote:
not really. because of its JIT compiler, Java is often as fast as C/C++, and
sometimes even significantly faster.
And GCJ can be asked to compile Java to native machine code too. I think
Java per se would be OK as a programming language if it
On Friday 30 November 2007 03:29:05 Josh Williams wrote:
On 11/29/07, Alan Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry for the misunderstanding. Honestly, Java would be a great language
for what wget does. Lots of built-in support for web stuff. However, I
was kidding about that. wget has a
On Friday 30 November 2007 13:45:08 Mauro Tortonesi wrote:
On Friday 30 November 2007 11:59:45 Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
Mauro Tortonesi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I vote we stick with C. Java is slower and more prone to environmental
problems.
not really. because of its JIT compiler,
On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Josh Williams wrote:
I really like the name `fetch` because it does what it says it does. It's
more UNIX-like than the other names :-)
While I agree that a unix-like name is preferable, I just want to point out
that 'fetch' is already used by a http/ftp transfer tool
Mauro Tortonesi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I vote we stick with C. Java is slower and more prone to environmental
problems.
not really. because of its JIT compiler, Java is often as fast as
C/C++, and sometimes even significantly faster.
Not if you count startup time, which is crucial for a
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Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, Mauro Tortonesi wrote:
not really. because of its JIT compiler, Java is often as fast as C/C++, and
sometimes even significantly faster.
And GCJ can be asked to compile Java to native machine
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