Have Sockets Run Their Course?

ChelleChelle writes "This article examines the limitations of the sockets API. The Internet and the networking world in general have changed in very significant ways since the sockets API was first developed in 1982, but the API has had the effect of narrowing the ways in which developers think about and write networked applications. This article discusses the history as well as the future of the sockets API, focusing on how 'high bandwidth, low latency, and multihoming are driving the development of new alternatives.'"

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[Anonymous Coward]

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Old school socket set....

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I have a socket set that covers SAE, and Metric stuff. I can work on any vehicle since 1960.
Is there a problem here?

Oh. it's just another 'change of language' that these damn punk kids insist on because they don't have the spine/balls to develop new concepts, and have to re-name the old to feel relevant?

Yeah, :
PC==Personal Computer
IP==Internet Protocol
Call me a Luddite all you want, but it does not change the fact you can't be original, and are 'climbing on the backs/shoulders of Giants' to achieve some nebulous 'marketshare'/Imaginary Property metric.

Change the terms and delude yourselves to your heart's content, it does not change the underlying facts, no matter how hard you protest.

Keep insisting that lose==loose, their==they're==there, a==an, and a multitude of other mistakes are 'okay' because it's 'on the internet' mentality.
Stupidity rules now!!!
Equality of the masses, never-mind most of you can extract your IQ from your shoe size!...We only have to be 'politically correct', not really correct...Just don't piss on the white-washed fence, and all will be okay.

If you want to go there:
"English, motherfucker, do you understand English?...say 'What' again, motherfucker!" *gunshot!!* (sorry if the concept is 'above' you)
Hint: watch 'Pulp Fiction' for the modern no-fault explanation.