Curl, the language/environment/markup language...(Spanish Civil War)...
Paul Prescod
paulp at ActiveState.com
Fri Apr 13 14:38:02 EDT 2001
Christopher Barber wrote:
>
> >>>>> Chris Gonnerman <chris.gonnerman at usa.net> writes:
>
> >> I am unware of any other client-side technologies, free or otherwise, that
> >> can do what Curl can do.
>
> > OK, I'll bite... what the heck does it do that is so cool I'd be willing
> > to pay you per unit executed code for it?
>
> As I said, companies will be willing to pay based on usage if they can save
> money on their web-hosting costs by requiring fewer servers and less
> bandwidth. From a programmer's perspective that doesn't sound very cool but
> from a business perspective it makes sense.
What is "in it" for the end-users? why would I install the Curl plugin.
I admit I'm one of those luddites that even thinks twice about
ShockWave/Flash/Acrobat. But even non-paranoids are resistent to
downloading binary extensions to their browsers.
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