Re: new Eu version, no built-in socks yet
Kat wrote:
>> Since both the Windows and 'nix platforms already support sockets through
>> the standard API's, what would be gained by creating built-ins to do this
>> in the interpreter?
>
>Speed and common interface.
>
>Kat
Somebody on this list...can't remember just who at this juncture... is always
howling on about paradigms (might even have been me). As a paradigm, the
Internet isn't likely to go away soon and Internet functionality through such
things as socks support sure makes the job a lot easier. I wouldn't mind a
call interface to a paradigm that makes this discussion possible, but I would
want the calls to be the same on all platforms. That might mean that
somebody comes up with a little lib like VEL or some free package that runs
on all the platforms that Eu does that would allow all versions of Eu to make
the same calls. Socks or some hook to IPv6 is the only form of IO that is
absolutely going to be found on every machine in the galaxy. Local IO is not
particularly portable and therefore would not be a good candidate for
embedding in a portable Eu, but this one sure looks like an opportunity
for everything from multi-player games to mail programs...to whatever
internet functionality that one can dream of. What fun. If I were going
to embed any IO, this would be it.
Everett L.(Rett) Williams
rett at gvtc.com
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