From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 27 13:57:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from po4.wam.umd.edu (po4.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B23737B719; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 13:57:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cschindl@wam.umd.edu) Received: from rac1.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:root@rac1.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.141]) by po4.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA06836; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 16:57:22 -0500 (EST) Received: from rac1.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac1.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA14417; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 16:57:21 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (cschindl@localhost) by rac1.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA14413; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 16:57:21 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: rac1.wam.umd.edu: cschindl owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 16:57:21 -0500 (EST) From: "c. schindler" To: Gabriel Ambuehl Cc: Kris Kennaway , Gabriel Ambuehl , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re[2]: good book on UNIX TCP/IP socket programming in C++? In-Reply-To: <147290010432.20010327203555@buz.ch> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG u might also consider UNIX Power Tools from O'Reilly. very good book. --------------- chris news for freebsd questions, stuff that really matters On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hello Kris, > > Tuesday, March 27, 2001, 8:13:09 PM, you wrote: > > As far as I know, there isn't a standardized C++ API for network > > stuff; most C++ programs use the C socket API (the rest use some > kind > > of nonstandardized wrapper library). Consequently, most/all of the > > documentation talks about it from a C PoV. You really can't get > > around learning it - fortunately, it's pretty easy, especially if > you > > know C++. > > > I currently don't know neither on a useable level (well, I'm able to > do very easy patches but that's about it). The motivation for choosing > C++ over C was the OO paradigm which I very much like and since it is > reported to cause serious problems to get accustomed to C++ OO if you > come from a C background, I wanted to avoid learning C in first > place... > > > The best network programming reference is "UNIX Network Programming" > > by W. Richard Stevens. > > Got his "TCP/IP illustrated" here. While everyone said it was very > good, > I found one of the O'Reillies to be better. Bookshop didn't have a > single book on socket programming today (well, except for Java but > that would hardly solve my Python performance problems ;-). > > > Best regards, > Gabriel > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGP 6.0.2i > > iQEVAwUBOsDPfsZa2WpymlDxAQE35wgAl12WMMLHYSeLJgo9Q1sKajGyqT2JJ9og > o8Al/BgJY3SvOamR8qK2V4kl34nY6eg864VHM+IP3P06hWUK7W2tyZWMLEsUhVhU > WHE+BckkPPEedmLGsPNsaHUeOidniNmi1A35F7BAlYAU9sL8xnrKVEv9js0ijeaU > /zO1/RxeM9OYTOj5Rhadbm5br86PYJmxM02TZqOyBfCV40NMtz4076UrnVdg1+Xy > FYnSE6fJMjAOik5Fca8gI6jVKfHmI5rjpZ0ASefNPIA2DAFIWdjHtO6hzvp2+9OJ > AG83ghnhqMUvokPizITxxXqEzJx/COTy5wEb2/+epHDVVYwZdy/IRg== > =eTLW > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message