Curl, the language/environment/markup language...(Spanish Civil War)...

[D-Man]

On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 12:04:50AM +1000, Andrew Maizels wrote:
| I think Microsoft has a new competitor in the dumb stunt competition. 
| Check out their (Curl's) pricing structure:
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| [And here's the kicker:]
| 
| Price per Volume (by characters)
| 
| Curl Corporation's usage-based software compiles information from
| end-user plug-ins that encounter Curl content. Included in this
| information is the number of characters of Curl content that are
| executed by the plug-ins. Curl Corporation's fees are derived from the
| total volume of Curl content executed by the plug-ins together with a
| price per one billion characters as determined by the customer's annual
| minimum fee commitment. 
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| 
| Excuse me?  You're going to do *what*?!

Isn't this price structure the sort of thing that encourages Perl and
discourages Python?  (as in -- use the fewest characters and
whitespace so the cost is less...)  <wink>

No threats here, obviously.

-D