whats does node/lib/dgram.js naming stands for?

[Kelvin Knighton]

HI guys&girls I'm reading some code over @ joyent github repository node/lib/dgram 

does the name stand for something? - dgram

[Ryan Graham]

dgram is short for datagram, as in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datagram_socket

~Ryan

On Sun, 31 May 2015 at 13:51 Kelvin Knighton <kelt...@gmail.com> wrote:

HI guys&girls I'm reading some code over @ joyent github repository node/lib/dgram 

does the name stand for something? - dgram

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[Aria Stewart]

> On 31 May 2015, at 14:16, Kelvin Knighton <kelt...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> HI guys&girls I'm reading some code over @ joyent github repository node/lib/dgram
> does the name stand for something? - dgram

"Datagram", which comes out of the BSD socket terminology for dealing with networks.

Datagrams are known-size messages, delivered whole or not at all -- it's the D in UDP -- rather than a streaming protocol like TCP.

Aria