Things to do before GUI-developers can start their work
Subject: Things to do before GUI-developers can start their work
From: James Frye
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 12:54:12 -0700 (PDT)
On 11 Jun 2003, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> So then the obvious question is "does it use a portable sockets
> interface, or is that specific to GCL?"
I believe sockets are by definition portable. They're part of the network
protocol, which just defines whatever handshaking goes on to create a
communication channel between two points. Neither end cares, or for that
matter even has any way of knowing, what language the process on the other
end was implemented in.
It's essentially what happens when you use a web browser: your browser
doesn't know what software or OS a web site uses, it just needs for it to
be able to open a socket connection according to protocol, and spit out
chunks of HTML on request :-)
James