From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 27 11:10: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-46.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78B2937B718 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:10:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 948AD66F34; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:10:00 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:10:00 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Gabriel Ambuehl Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: good book on UNIX TCP/IP socket programming in C++? Message-ID: <20010327111000.A16624@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <85286437044.20010327193622@buz.ch> <20010327101309.A67416@citusc17.usc.edu> <147290010432.20010327203555@buz.ch> <20010327104926.A16104@xor.obsecurity.org> <18291231799.20010327205616@buz.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="bg08WKrSYDhXBjb5" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <18291231799.20010327205616@buz.ch>; from gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch on Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 08:56:16PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --bg08WKrSYDhXBjb5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 08:56:16PM +0200, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: > Granted. Now the question is whether the simpler language has to be C > (which I don't consider to be anything like simple, much rather > cumbersome [1]) or whether a script language (of which I use several, > both OO and non OO) would be enough... You'll find at least a working knowledge of C essential, especially working on UNIX since that's what it's mostly written in, that's the API used by all our libraries, referred to in all of the manpages, etc. > Best regards, > Gabriel > [1] Beware. I don't want to start a language war here, I'm merely > looking for a good book to pick up one I admittedly don't think is > good... I still think you can't go past Stevens (not TCP Illustrated, the other one I referred to earlier). Kris --bg08WKrSYDhXBjb5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6wOWIWry0BWjoQKURAo/aAJ4x3DyfY3hWFbh8h+0vm1trl3LHZwCfSObE UONuIEa1w7ZPtoaK8pZQtcw= =aFnc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --bg08WKrSYDhXBjb5-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message