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From: rminnich@super.ORG (Ronald G Minnich)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: TCP/IP in C++?
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Date: 17 Feb 89 18:09:41 GMT
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In article <1200001@hp-col.HP.COM> bdale@hp-col.HP.COM (Bdale Garbee) writes:
>Unless it's purely for academic interest, re-implementing this stuff to take
>advantage of C++'ish features seems a colossal waste of time...
I am not so sure. Think of all the hton stuff that it seems to me would 
go away. One recent version of tcp/ip source that got distributed was
missing some of these and did not work on some machines. 
Seems a lot of ugly fluff could disappear...I could trust the source more.
ron