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A chat server. One chat room. Make sure you can handle fast and slow clients, and disconnects.



OMG, memories... at once point in the pleistocene era, I was tasked with writing a manual for what was then Informix 4GL[1], and to get comfortable with the language, I spent a week writing a user forum app, with topics and message threads, messages stored as "blobs" in the SQL DB. Tried to get my co-workers in the pubs group to use it. They thought it was cute but all said hahaha no.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Informix-4GL -- I am flabbergasted to see 4GL is still in use 30 years on.




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