gopher

plural gophers · alternative gauffre

1. A small burrowing rodent native to North and Central America, especially in the family Geomyidae (pocket gophers).
2. A ground squirrel (Marmotinae spp.).
3. A gopher tortoise (Gopherus spp.).
4. A gopher rockfish (Sebastes carnatus).
5. slangcomputingA Go programmer.

   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.

   2017, Lex Sheehan, Learning Functional Programming in Go, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 373

plural gophers

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of gofer (“worker who runs errands”).

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   Crackpot Texan oil magnate Felix Happer (Burt Lancaster) gets the idea that a small Scottish fishing village would be a marvellous acquisition for his so-rich-it-makes-you-sick company, Knox Oil and Gas, so he sends an executive gopher named MacIntyre (because that sounds Scottish, yeah – played by Peter Riegert) to close the deal and get the pipeline pencilled in.

   2015 March 12, Bill Mann, “The film that makes me cry: Local Hero”, in The Guardian

1. InternethistoricalAn Internet protocol for document search and retrieval.

plural Gophers

1. computingAlternative letter-case form of gopher.

   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.

   2017, Lex Sheehan, Learning Functional Programming in Go, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 373