MBOX-Line: From yiorgos.adamopoulos at gmail.com  Sat Mar  7 05:23:26 2015
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Yiorgos Adamopoulos <yiorgos.adamopoulos@gmail.com>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:53 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] If Crispin were creating IMAP today how would
 it be different?
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On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 3:18 PM, Arnt Gulbrandsen
<arnt@gulbrandsen.priv.no> 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

