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World's Shortest P2P App: 15 Lines

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the no-need-to-be-fancy dept.

soren.harward writes "The New Scientist has an article about TinyP2P, the world's smallest P2P app. It's 15 lines of Python code brought to us by Edward Felten, CS Professor at Princeton and outspoken supporter of the digital rights the Slashdot community holds so dear. He wrote the program as a proof-of-concept that P2P apps are really easy to write, don't have to be complicated, and thus banning them (a la the INDUCE Act) is pointless and silly."

2 of 443 comments (clear)

  1. Subscribers: by johnny_sas · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    I bet you're really glad to be the firsts to see this.... REPOST!!!!

  2. Re:Libraries by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You moron, of course you link in libraries doing lots of work for you. That's what allows modern apps to have many more features.

    What, an app isn't "real" unless you reinvent every freakin' wheel and do it in assembly?