Re: [Imap-protocol] If Crispin were creating IMAP today how would it be different?
Yiorgos Adamopoulos <[email protected]> Sat, 7 Mar 2015 15:23:26 +0200
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On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 3:18 PM, Arnt Gulbrandsen <[email protected]> wrote: > Mark really liked Lisp and terminal servers. IIRC, the first version of Mark's toolkit was written in Lisp. So probably with today's abundance in Lisp like languages, he would have picked one and write it in Lisp. The OP also asked whether it would have been more stateless. Well, given the criticism that Mark exercised on how students do not learn how to maintain state in their programs, it seems to me that he would have gone stateless. He would have been Mark if he did. -- "If technology is your thing plan to die reading manuals" --Gene Woolsey _______________________________________________ Imap-protocol mailing list [email protected] http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/imap-protocol