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Date:      Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:10:00 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: good book on UNIX TCP/IP socket programming in C++?
Message-ID:  <20010327111000.A16624@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <18291231799.20010327205616@buz.ch>; from gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch on Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 08:56:16PM %2B0200
References:  <85286437044.20010327193622@buz.ch> <20010327101309.A67416@citusc17.usc.edu> <147290010432.20010327203555@buz.ch> <20010327104926.A16104@xor.obsecurity.org> <18291231799.20010327205616@buz.ch>

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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
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