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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Why no socket package in the standard ?
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Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 09:25:38 +0200
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On Tue, 24 May 2011 00:07:55 -0700 (PDT), Maciej Sobczak wrote:

> On 24 Maj, 08:24, georg bauhaus <rmhost.bauh...@maps.arcor.de> wrote:
> 
>> Which modern, post 1990, language supports sockets in the language?
> 
> In the language? Probably none, as this does not belong to the
> language.

That is an interesting question. Actually sockets could belong to the
language. Consider for example the select statement containing alternatives
of a socket's select.

> It might, however, be part of the standard library.

There are many difficulties on that path. When people are demanding sockets
they forget that beyond TCP/IP and UDP there is a lot of other stuff
communicated over sockets, e.g. multi-cast protocols, raw sockets and so
on. These are barely standardized.

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