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Smallest P2P Client January 13, 2006

With the increasing popularity of P2P, creative juices of people have started flowing. Now individuals are competing in terms of who can write the smallest P2P client.

TinyP2P is a functional peer-to-peer file sharing application, written in fifteen lines of code, in the Python programming language. Ed Felten has written TinyP2P to illustrate the difficulty of regulating peer-to-peer applications.

To counter that Matthew Skala a diehard Perl hacker in his own words, created a client is just 9-lines of perl code. Check out his MoleSter

Another one out there is uP2P which is short concise (6 lines, 436 characters).

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