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Subject: [gopher] Re: Gopher thoughts
From: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 10:51:11 -0500
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On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 14:11:42 -0500, "Ralph Furmaniak" <sugaku@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:

> > Personally, I think we need a gopherd written in Python, and I aim to
> > do that one of these days.  (Really!)
> 
> In that case, would anyone mind a Lisp or Fortran server?  While we're at it,
> lets just write bytecode!

Well, I suggested Python for several reasons:

 1. A lot of framework is already done.

 2. There are no buffer overflow issues to worry about.

 3. It's fast to write such a thing in Python.


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