Funny TCP Joke

[nmaster]

http://twitter.com/tabqwerty/status/43083568565596160

lol

[cgroza]

HAHAHHAHAHHAHA, I don't get it...

[Dustin2128]

eh, not that funny. How about this?

It doesn't matter whether your TCP/IP stack was coded in malbolge by Russian monks and only runs on RISC OS, if it supports the standard it won't cause any problems for anybody.

[cgroza]

HAHAHHAHAHHAHA, I don't get it...?

[SoftwareExplorer]

HAHAHHAHAHHAHA, I don't get it...

I believe it has to do with how a TCP connection is set up.

IIRC, a TCP connection is set up like this:
First a packet requesting the connection is sent (by computer A in this example).
Computer B receives A's packet and sends a packet acknowledging the request.
Computer A receives the packet from computer B and considers the connection established. Computer A sends a packet acknowledging the acknowledged request.
Computer B gets A's packet and considers the connection established.

After this, there more packets with the actual connection data, and each one is responded to with a 'got it' message.

[Dustin2128]

HAHAHHAHAHHAHA, I don't get it...?

saw it in a ./ discussion about standards compliance. Malbolge is this programming language designed to be satanically hard to write, this is hello word:

 ('&%:9]!~}|z2Vxwv-,POqponl$Hjig%eB@@>}=<M:9wv6WsU2T|nm-,jcL(I&%$#"`CB]V?Tx<uVtT`Rpo3NlF.Jh++FdbCBA@?]!~|4XzyTT43Qsqq(Lnmkj"Fhg${z@>

. RISC OS is an obscure ARM operating system.

[NMFTM]

3-way handshake, lol.

[jwbrase]

Good luck getting a TCP stack coded in Malbolge to support any kind of standard.

[juancarlospaco]

TCP in Sovietic Russia:
Host_A -----------RAW_DATA---------> Host_B

[nmaster]

3-way handshake, lol.

i'm glad some people got it...

i guess i shouldn't assume everyone has a computer science background here, my bad!