Gopher

See also: gopher

English

Etymology

    From the gopher, mascot of the University of Minnesota, where the Gopher protocol was developed.

    Proper noun

    Gopher

    1. (Internet, historical) An Internet protocol for document search and retrieval.

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    Noun

    Gopher (plural Gophers)

    1. (programming) Alternative letter-case form of gopher.
      • 2017, Lex Sheehan, Learning Functional Programming in Go, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 373:
        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.

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