kinda banal if you ask me. it's two simple tools that do approximately the same thing. even grep vs ack would be more interesting.
no offense to the authors of course, they did a great job in both cases.
no offense to the authors of course, they did a great job in both cases.
My take-away was that a) I am not missing out by staying with curl and b) the use of wget is likely due to being part of GNU.
This is the difference between "wget http://www.google.ca/ and "curl -O http://www.google.ca/
Just a simple small but significant difference.
But you can't expect developers to be impartial about their own code and it was my fault for not noticing the disclaimer the first time. It reads completely different with that framing in mind, but still if I was looking for the definitive reason that one tool was recommended over another I'd consider the point of view of the developers as a starting point rather than an open and shut case.
"ack is a tool like grep, designed for programmers with large trees of heterogeneous source code."