in reply to Perl spider

Of course, real men will program that spider in assembly at the level of the TPC/IP stack of your wireless router.

No, seriously, why only considering Perl or java?

CountZero

A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James

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Re^2: Perl spider
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 22, 2011 at 20:35 UTC
    probably knows perl and java -- learning a new language isn't always in the budget
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