[MLB-WIRELESS] Re: [OT] Network programming (was: random stuff... was: hardware database online)

[Daniel Studds]

Jeremy,
thanx for your help, I'm going to follow up those references soon.

>Daniel Studds wrote:
>>  You're right, I could learn network programming in any number of
>>  places, perl and C are kinda similar (I have a little bit of
>>  experience with both) so either would do. I said C++ in the first
>>  place though because OOP seems a lot neater to me than procedural
>>  languages.
>>
>Yes, I find C++ neater than C too and it sounds fine for what you want to do
>(although be aware that there are a lot of cross-platform issues due to
>varying compiler support of some features, particularly template related).
>However your question was about learning TCP-IP programming--my point is
>that even in a C++ program you'll probably want to use the standard C BSD
>library calls since: they supported under basically every platform,
>including Windows (which is based on BSD code), Linux (and everything
>POSIX), and Mac OS X; they work well; they are straightforward to use; and
>they are well documented at both a tutorial and a reference level.
>
>For learning the BSD calls your best bet are the references I pointed to in
>my last email. They are basically the same functions regardless of whether
>you decide to do your initial learning under Perl or C/C++.
>
>If you want to get into more advanced network programming, such as playing
>directly with TCP-IP packets, have a look at W. Richard Stevens' "TCP-IP
>Illustrated" books which are a great reference.
>
>HTH,
>   Jeremy
>
>
>
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