Received: with LISTAR (v1.0.0; list gopher); Thu, 17 Jan 2002 10:51:04 -0500 (EST) Return-Path: Delivered-To: gopher@complete.org Received: from christoph.complete.org (unknown [168.215.193.254]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (Client CN "christoph.complete.org", Issuer CN "John Goerzen -- Root CA" (verified OK)) by pi.glockenspiel.complete.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A4E93B859; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 10:51:04 -0500 (EST) Received: from christoph (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by christoph.complete.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3A1611904; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 10:51:12 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 10:51:11 -0500 From: John Goerzen To: gopher@complete.org Subject: [gopher] Re: Gopher thoughts Message-Id: <20020117105111.62c72332.jgoerzen@complete.org> In-Reply-To: <3C45D06E.74FB8A34@sympatico.ca> References: <3C4493E0.D60E4C67@sympatico.ca> <87sn96qpn9.fsf@complete.org> <3C45D06E.74FB8A34@sympatico.ca> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; powerpc-debian-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-archive-position: 356 X-listar-version: Listar v1.0.0 Sender: gopher-bounce@complete.org Errors-to: gopher-bounce@complete.org X-original-sender: jgoerzen@complete.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: gopher@complete.org List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-software: Listar version 1.0.0 X-List-ID: Gopher List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: List-archive: X-list: gopher On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 14:11:42 -0500, "Ralph Furmaniak" 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.