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Minimal P2P application

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. (7 April 2005)

P2P in 6 lines of Ruby (uses library)

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. (7 April 2005)

Schmolester - simple P2P in Guile Scheme

Michael L. Gran has posted Schmolester, a simple P2P program written in Scheme, based on MoleSter 0.0.2, and distributed under GPL. (7 April 2005)

MoleSter 0.0.4 - now 6 lines, 466 bytes

An attempt to write the world's smallest non-trivial file-sharing application in Perl. (2 April 2005)