[gopher] Re: Gopher thoughts

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>]

We seem to have a communication problem :-)  I saw Fortran and thought
that you were being facetious and mocking my Python suggestion!  I
wasn't trying to mock the Lispish suggestion.

-- John

MJ Ray <markj@cloaked.freeserve.co.uk> writes:

> > 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.
> 
> I suggested a Lisp family language (Scheme in my case) for the exact same
> reasons, so I don't quite understand your differential.  Of course, Lisps
> also provide you with hygenic macros and other powerful tools which I think
> are still absent from current common Pythons(?) but these may not be useful
> in this case.
> 
> Do we really care?  Just give us more interesting gopher servers powering
> more interesting gopher sites ;-)
> -- 
> MJR
> 

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