Code snobbery: I could compare dates faster than DreamWeaver

[Greg the dogsitter]

Big site; a thousand files or so. I want to download newer files from the ftp server, so DW has to compare dates. It feels like this:

Compare file 1...
Compare file 2...
Compare file 3...

The other week, I wrote a real basic perl script that got the modification dates for files on a totally different ftp server. It grabbed the results of the ftp dir() command, then mashed the dates around offline. It was a heckuva lot faster than whatever DW is doing.

What the hey, DW?

GtDS

[mattkime]

>>What the hey, DW?

If you can code a perl script that does something faster than DW, then you don't need DW.

[Greg the dogsitter]

In this case, that might be a good idea.

[M A V I C]

I used DW a lot from version 1 to 4. I still keep up with it, even taught a class in it.

Now I do it all by hand.

[TheTominator]

But can you compare dates as fast as a contestant on elimiDate?

http://elimidate.warnerbros.com/