MoleSter 0.0.4 - now 6 lines, 466 bytes

Sat, 02 Apr 2005 21:55:08 GMT

An attempt to write the world's smallest non-trivial file-sharing application in Perl. NEW: Commented/documented version 0.0.4 is now posted

uP2P - 6 lines, 436 bytes, sh and netcat

Thu, 24 Feb 2005 01:35:46 GMT

Prof. Pascal Felber, of the Institut d'informatique, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland, forwarded me this link to his uP2P file-sharing program - currently 6 lines totalling 436 bytes, implemented in sh with the networking done by netcat. [284 words...]

Schmolester - simple P2P in Guile Scheme

Mon, 03 Jan 2005 05:00:00 GMT

Michael L. Gran has posted Schmolester, a simple P2P program written in Scheme, based on MoleSter 0.0.2, and distributed under GPL. [228 words...]

P2P in 6 lines of Ruby (uses library)

Thu, 16 Dec 2004 05:00:00 GMT

Florian Gross has posted a 6-line P2P application in comp.lang.ruby. Enjoy this Google Groups link while it lasts. Although this is still cool, please note that it uses a library called "DRb", which apparently implements most of the intelligence for distributed applications. If we allow that, then the game becomes a test of library support rather than of programmer ingenuity; still an interesting question, but not the one I'm interested in. From a political point of view, this code doesn't prove that P2P is irrepressible so much as it proves that DRb is a piracy tool. [301 words...]

Minimal P2P application

Wed, 15 Dec 2004 05:00:00 GMT

Dr. Edward Felten has posted the source code for TinyP2P, "a functional peer-to-peer file sharing application, written in fifteen lines of code, in the Python programming language." I have three thoughts. [629 words...]