[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell not ready for Foo [was: Re: Hypothetical Haskell job in New York]

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On 2009 Jan 9, at 20:51, Tim Newsham wrote:
> I'm suprised htonl comes up so often.  You can unmarshall data  
> directly from a byte stream to an Int type without caring about the  
> underlying representation of your Int.  Why do people want the htonl  
> function?


IP address math.  (see @ipcalc in #lopsa's lambdabot)

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