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[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/29/2020 2:21 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> 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/
> 
> :-)

:-)

Lynx is not an API.

> 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.

In the example above there is really no setup. WebClient is just
a class that you use. No config files.

Arne