TwIP - An IP Stack In a Tweet

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday August 30, 2009 @10:21AM from the small-is-good dept.

Adam Dunkels writes "Inspired by the Twitter-sized program that crashes Mac OS X, I just wrote a really, really rudimentary IP stack called twIP, small enough to fit in a Twitter tweet. Although twIP is very far away from a real IP stack, it can do the first task of any IP stack: respond to pings. The entire source code can be found in this 128-character-long tweet. For those who are interested in low-level network programming, a code walkthrough with instructions on how to run the code under FreeBSD is available here. The FAQ: Q: why? A: for fun."

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similarly big accomplishment by AlgorithMan · 2009-08-30 11:37 · Score: 4, Funny

hey, I wrote a webbrowser in 8 bytes of BATCH: here's the source code:

IEXPLORE
impressive, huh?

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Re:At least 3 ways to make it smaller: by Mozk · 2009-08-30 15:58 · Score: 4, Funny

Yeah, but for(;;) loops forever, whereas while(1) only loops while 1 is true. It's completely different! What if 1 becomes false?!

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