> People had a choice: either put up with an (admittedly) bad interface or write their own version in C. That's totally false. libwww-perl was created 17 year

> People had a choice: either put up with an (admittedly) bad interface or write their own version in C. That's totally false. libwww-perl was created 17 years ago and predates curl by a few years. There's nothing new about capable scripting languages and Unix.