[Languages] Curl
Some time back, I started to look at Curl but balked at the commercial pricing. Now, they apparently have a Free Application Deployment Program.
Non-Expiring versions of the Surge Runtime Environment and Surge Lab IDE are now available for public download . In addition, developers can also get a license key at no cost to deploy applications to the internet, as long as the applications may be fully utilized without requiring the user to enter any registration or billing information. Anybody may participate in this program and any application is eligible as long as the application is available to all users at no cost. Click here to request a license key.Curl has a fairly nice pedigree:
Curl Corporation was founded in February, 1998. The company was established to extend and commercialize the results of a three-year, five million dollar US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) funded research project conducted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The founders of Curl Corporation were twelve members of the MIT community, with a technical team led by Stephen A. Ward, an internationally recognized computer scientist; the late Michael L. Dertouzos, Former Director of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science; and Timothy Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web and Director of the W3C.So, in summary, I downloaded the kit, requested a license key, and will probably experiment on some Open Source toy app. Just browsing around, it looks like Curl may have some interesting features worth learning from. YMMV!