Gofer

3 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  gofer
       n : an employee whose duties include running errands

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  31 Moby Thesaurus words for "gofer":


     Ganymede, Hebe, airline hostess, airline stewardess, attendant,
     batman, bellboy, bellhop, bellman, bootblack, boots, cabin boy,
     caddie, chore boy, copyboy, cupbearer, errand boy, errand girl,
     footboy, hostess, office boy, office girl, orderly, page, squire,
     steward, stewardess, tender, trainbearer, usher, yeoman
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  Gofer
       
           A {lazy} {functional language} designed by Mark
          Jones  at the {Programming Research Group},
          Oxford, UK in 1991.  It is very similar to {Haskell} 1.2.  It
          has {lazy evaluation}, {higher order function}s, {pattern
          matching}, and {type class}es, lambda, case, conditional and
          let expressions, and wild card, "as" and {irrefutable
          patterns}.  It lacks {modules}, {arrays} and standard
          {classes}.
       
          Gofer comes with an {interpreter} (in C), a {compiler} which
          compiles to {C}, documentation and examples.  Unix Version
          2.30 (1994-06-10) Mac_Gofer version 0.16 beta.  Ported to
          {Sun}, {Acorn} {Archimedes}, {IBM PC}, {Macintosh}, {Atari},
          {Amiga}.
       
          Version 2.30 added support for contexts in datatype and member
          function definitions, Haskell style {arrays}, an external
          function calling mechanism for gofc, an experimental
          implementation of Launchbury/Peyton Jones style lazy
          functional state threads, an experimental implementation of
          "do" notation for {monad comprehensions}.
       
          Latest version: {HUGS}.
       
          ["Introduction to Gofer 2.20", M.P. Jones.]
       
          [The implementation of the Gofer functional programming
          system, Mark P. Jones, Research Report YALEU/DCS/RR-1030, Yale
          University, Department of Computer Science, May 1994.  FTP:
          nebula.cs.yale.edu/pub/yale-fp/reports].
       
          {(http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/Department/Staff/mpj/)}.
       
          {FTP Yale (ftp://nebula.cs.yale.edu/)}, {FTP Glasgow
          (ftp://ftp.dcs.glasgow.ac.uk/)}, {FTP Chalmers
          (ftp://ftp.cs.chalmers.se/pub/haskell/gofer/)}.
       
          (1995-02-14)