Re: wget2

2007-11-30 Thread Daniel Stenberg
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

Re: wget2

2007-11-30 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Re: Wget for MP3 streams

2007-11-30 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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,

Re: wget2

2007-11-30 Thread Mauro Tortonesi
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 ;-)

Re: wget2

2007-11-30 Thread Mauro Tortonesi
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

Re: Wget for MP3 streams

2007-11-30 Thread David Ginger
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

Re: wget2

2007-11-30 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
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

Re: wget2

2007-11-30 Thread Mauro Tortonesi
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

Re: wget2

2007-11-30 Thread David Ginger
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,

Re: Wget Name Suggestions

2007-11-30 Thread Daniel Stenberg
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

Re: wget2

2007-11-30 Thread Hrvoje Niksic
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

Re: wget2

2007-11-30 Thread Micah Cowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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