On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Andrew Coppin <andrewcop...@btinternet.com> wrote: > Thomas DuBuisson wrote: >> >> The network library is no more than an FFI library to a Berkeley >> socket interface and as such it implicitly expects you to know sockets >> already (eg. from programming in C). One advantage here is reading >> man pages actually helps (unlike with most Haskell coding) and you can >> also make equivalent C programs to test things out. >> > > Yes, that's kind of the problem; I don't know how to do this at the C level, > and I can't seem to Google it. :-} > > Ah well, I'll ask around. Somebody must know. ;-)
Ahh, then see Beej's guide [1] if you wish to learn at the C level. On another note: when making your Haskell app if you are at all performance concerned then you should use network-bytestring [2]. [1] http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/ [2] http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/network-bytestring _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe