[Tutor] programming theology questions

[Liam Clarke]

As Bob just mentioned sockets, I thought I'd ask, what exactly are sockets?

I thought that they were just for stuff like open ports, etc, but then
people are talking about two programmes running concurrently
communicating via sockets.

Can anyone give a newbie a very brief rundown?

Regards,

Liam Clarke

On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 13:16:13 -0600, Bob Gailer <bgailer at alum.rpi.edu> wrote:
> At 01:00 PM 10/30/2004, Lloyd Kvam wrote:
> >On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 12:52, Bob Gailer wrote:
> > > At 10:21 AM 10/30/2004, Rene Lopez wrote:
> > > >How many programming languages can safely fit in your head before you
> > > >get confused, or think it's not worth it?   :-)
> > >
> > > My history: machine language (IBM 650, 370) assembler (650, GE415,
> > > Singer10, IBM370) APL, APL2, Basic, Focal, Fortran, Pascal, PLAS, PLX,
> > > PL/I, C and C++, dBase-VisualFoxPro, Python, CMS Exec & Exec2, REXX,
> > > Advanced Revelation R-Basic, Clarion, all versions of MS Word and Excel
> > > macro languages, Access. I started learning J but got lost.... I've
> > studied
> > > but not used ADA, Modula II, Snobol, Cobol, Algol.
> >
> >How did you avoid Java and Perl??
> 
> I picked up a Java book cuz I wanted to learn socket programming. After
> reading the relevant chapter and code examples I guessed it would take a
> couple of hours of typing and debugging to run the examples. I then went to
> the Python site, found the socket module w/examples and in 5 minutes had it
> running. That was the end of my interest in Java.
> 
> Just never had an opportunity to use Perl.
> 
> 
> 
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