From: BiOFH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hehehe ...to avoid those uncomfortable moments months later when they > say "OK, now we want to add X and put this baby live on the > Internet"? And the programmers reply "Uhh... couldn't you have told > us this 'before' we did it all with UDP instead of TCP"? Those "uncomfortable moments" could have been avoided if the I/O functions were properly encapsulated in the first place. It =never= should be the case that you can't change from UDP to TCP to carrier pigeon to Pony Express without little more than changing a very small number of routines. -- Julie. _______________________________________________ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
