Fa3ien wrote:

>> Obviously I recommend Haskell for this task - and, obviously, you're 
>> going to say no. ;-) 
> 
> How did you guess ?

Mmm, because everybody hates Haskell? ;-)

>> That being the case, I'm pretty confident that Perl / Python / Ruby / 
>> Tcl / any of those hackish scripting languages will have a library 
>> that makes this reasonably easy.
> 
> I'm tempted to get a hand on Ruby, for various reasons. Maybe I can
> do it in Lisp... At first, I rejected the idea because it would
> need AutoCAD, but, no, there might be some free LISP intepreter,
> I should check.

I'm pretty sure I looked into this myself, and found that there are 
indeed free Common Lisp interpreters out there.

(And there's always emacs... bahahaha!)

> In fact, it doesn't even need a http library, if I can shell to
> Wget and read the downloaded file...

Yeah, that's true. Probably easier this way if there isn't a strong HTTP 
library already available. wget will already cover all the important 
edge cases...

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