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 ton of great functionality, and I am a > reformed C/C++ programmer (or a recent Java convert). But I love using > wget!
I vote we stick with C. Java is slower and more prone to environmental problems. Wget needs to be as independent as we can possibly make it. A lot of the systems that wget is used on (including mine) do not even have Java installed. That would be a HUGE requirement for many people.
