On Monday 09 Jun 2008 7:43:46 pm Ivan Krstić wrote: > On Jun 9, 2008, at 10:32 AM, Karl Robillard wrote: > > I don't see any real difference. In fact, OS portability is > > probably the > > easier part to achieve due to existing standards (TCP/IP, OpenGL, etc) > > TCP/IP? Great, let's write a web server!
Unix with its namespace and standard file i/o is a dream come true for application programmers who had to write separate i/o drivers to read data from different devices. Sockets and TCP/IP is a big relief for those who had to deal with Token Ring, IPX and whole bunch of protocols from the previous century :-). Portability is a lot easier today because of open source and common APIs. Yes, there are issues but they don't need a research program to resolve :-). Subbu _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
