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Gopher
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gopher
English
Etymology
en :from gopher 1
From the gopher, mascot of the University of Minnesota, where the Gopher protocol was developed.
Proper noun
en Internet historical An Internet protocol for document search and retrieval.
Derived terms
en gopherspace
en gopherhole
en phlog
Translations
an Internet protocol for document search/retrieval
Finnish: fi Gopher-protokolla
Marathi: mr गोफर m
Noun
en programming en gopher.
en 2017 Lex Sheehan Learning Functional Programming in Go Packt Publishing Ltd 9781787286047 373 https://books.google.com/books?id=pkBPDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA373&dq=%22gophers%22+programmer&hl=&cd=2&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=%22gophers%22%20programmer&f=false I'm not at all advocating for any Gophers to switch to Haskell—there are far too many reasons to keep coding and deploying Go solutions to address here.
Further reading
Gopher (protocol)