Announce: Client server tutorial

Joe Armstrong joe@REDACTED
Fri Oct 3 16:35:40 CEST 2003


On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 jonathan@REDACTED wrote:

> On 2 Oct 2003 at 17:02, Joe Armstrong wrote:
> 
> Am I missing something? Wouldn't it have made more sense to the 
> server in Erlang and client in C? Or are things done this to 
> demonstrate some particular techniques that you wanted to show?

  Writing a  Server in Erlang and  client in C borders  on the trivial
(apart from the fact that *nothing* in C is trivial :-)

  I find I *often* have to write servers in C since it's difficult to get
Erlang to do really low-level things ...

  /Joe

  
 



> 
> - Jonathan Coupe
> 
> > 
> > I have written a client-server tutorial, its at:
> > 
> >    http://www.sics.se/~joe/tutorials/client_server/client_server.html
> > 	
> >    Properties
> > 	Client in Erlang
> > 	Server in C
> >         Sockets
> >         Parallel server (ie I fork of one process per session)
> > 
> >    /Joe
> > 
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