[Info-vax] Large mailboxes

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <rpv4d5$127e$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=
<arne at vajhoej.dk> writes: 

> > YMMV, but, I get done much quicker if I skip all the overhead coding.
> 
> I am not convinced.
> 
> Let me make an example.
> 
> Task getting the page at https://www.google.com/
> 
> In VB.NET you do:
> 
> Dim wc As WebClient =  New WebClient
> Dim s As String = wc.DownloadString("https://www.google.com/")
> 
> How many lines does it take to do that using socket API??

$ lynx -dump https://www.google.com/ 

:-)

Of course, with higher-level stuff one has to take into account the 
overhead of setting it up and so on, but if one has done that anyway for 
other reasons, then it does make sense to count only the incremental 
effort involved.