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The day a professor made me implement a simple http server was the day I achieved code enlightenment. At that level of abstraction it’s all just strings
by ticviking 3y ago
The day a professor made me implement a simple http server was the day I achieved code enlightenment.
At that level of abstraction it’s all just strings
- tambourine_man 3y agoThat was the web, yeah. Absurdly simple. Now all new protocols are binary and require reading several academic papers instead of a single RFC.
- bob1029 3y ago> At that level of abstraction it’s all just strings Exactly... I worry about the masses learning of this and gaining literacy over the landed gentry. PHP/CGI basically had it solved. I emulate PHP in .NET6 today using verbatim and interpolated string operations.
- a_subsystem 3y agoRelevant: https://twitter.com/serbantanasa/status/1582019078533046272 https://twitter.com/serbantanasa/status/1582019078533046272