2013/12/19 Sven Van Caekenberghe <[email protected]>: > On 19 Dec 2013, at 17:09, jannik.laval <[email protected]> wrote:
>> No more need of Wireshark. > Great ! > When it works (and one way or another is usually does), Pharo is a > great/excellent tool for doing all sorts of network, binary and bit hacking. > A thousand times more practical and useful than low level languages: you have > great interactivity, discoverability and debug capabilities in a super > environment where you can really work with objects (and thus bytes, bits and > byte arrays). +1 Years ago I implemented a client (in VB6) for a proprietary binary feed, but because I didn't have the server available, I was able to implement the interface with Smalltalk. Being able to inspect the contents of a socket, and iterate as you like is a true advantage. Regards! Esteban A. Maringolo
