Movatterモバイル変換
[0]ホーム
Curl, the language/environment/markup language...(Spanish Civil War)...
D-Mandsh8290 at rit.edu
Fri Apr 6 12:30:23 EDT 2001
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:|| --------------------------------------------------------------------------...| [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.|| -------------------------------------------------------------------------|| Excuse me? You're going to do *what*?!Isn't this price structure the sort of thing that encourages Perl anddiscourages Python? (as in -- use the fewest characters andwhitespace so the cost is less...) <wink>No threats here, obviously.-D
More information about the Python-listmailing list
[8]ページ先頭