BSD Sockets Programming from a Multi-Language Perspective

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M. Tim Jones

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Jones, M. Tim.
BSD Sockets programming from a multi-language perspective / M. Tim Jones.
p. cm.
ISBN 1-58450-268-1 (Pbk. with CD-ROM : alk. paper)
1. Internet programming. 2. Computer networks-Design and
construction. 3. Internetworking (Telecommunication) 4. Programming
languages (Electronic computers) I. Title.
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This book would not have been possible without the patience and support of my beautiful wife, Jill, and my three children, Megan, Elise, and Marc.

Without Jill's support and encouragement, this book would have remained a draft outline on my laptop. I'm also grateful to my parents, Bud and Celeta, whose gift of a TRS-80 (with 4 KB RAM!) in 1979 began what has been a rewarding and successful career in software development.

Acknowledgments

This book investigates Sockets programming from the perspective of a number of interesting and novel languages. This book would not be possible without these languages, and, therefore, the authors of these languages must be acknowledged. The C language was conceived and implemented by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs. Perl was the brainchild of Larry Wall, who continues to direct its implementation and direction. Tcl was initially developed by John Ousterhout at the University of California at Berkeley. Python was created by Guido Van Rossum at CWI in Amsterdam. Java was conceived by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems. Finally, the Ruby language (my personal favorite object-oriented scripting language) was developed in Japan by Yukihiro Matsumoto (aka 'Matz').

While one may think of a book as written by a lonely author sitting up late at night researching and scribbling away on a stack of coffee-stained paper, the development of a book is an effort of many dedicated people. I'm thankful for the folks at Charles River Media who made this book possible, including Jim Walsh, Bryan Davidson, and Meg Dunkerley. Thanks also to Jim Lieb for his extremely helpful reviews.

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