Re: [hybi] Is there a traffic jam?

"Thomson, Martin" <Martin.Thomson@andrew.com> Fri, 24 April 2009 06:44 UTC

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From: "Thomson, Martin" <Martin.Thomson@andrew.com>
To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>
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Because all 12 year olds use strict and -T.

I must admit that my perl is getting a wee bit rusty, but that's a non-trivial piece of code.  

I hope that you are about to argue that most of that code is going to be provided by Net:WebSocket or something similar.  Otherwise, there's more than enough rope left there to hang a number of software engineers that I know (admittedly, not the better ones).

--Martin

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> Ian Hickson
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> Subject: Re: [hybi] Is there a traffic jam?
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> On Mon, 13 Apr 2009, Paul Prescod wrote:
> >
> > Please be very specific about HOW a 12-year old who knows PHP would
> > write a multiplayer game using PHP and WebSockets.
> 
> I don't know about a 12-year old who knows PHP, but a 12-year old who
> knows, say, Perl, could do it something like this for the server side:
> 
>    http://www.damowmow.com/playground/demos/websocket/tic-tac-toe.pl
> 
> ...and something like this for the client side:
> 
>    http://www.damowmow.com/playground/demos/websocket/tic-tac-toe.html
> 
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