23 Aug
2014
23 Aug
'14
12:11 a.m.
On Fri, 22 Aug 2014, Ronald Natalie wrote:
I hate the socket interface, at least once you use
it's goofy interface
on UNIX, it works mostly like a file descriptor.
In a previous slavery we had a simple socket library; the application did
little more than say whether it was a client or a server etc. I wish I
could steal that code now...
The sucky one is Windows which has a socket interface
but it's file read
and write calls are completely incompatible.
Well, we mustn't imitate Unix, must we?
-- Dave