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Re:The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences by viraptor on Monday July 20, 2015 @09:00PM (#9920059)
Where did you find that? The service existed a long time before Go was created.
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Re:The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences by lifthrasiir on Monday July 20, 2015 @10:42PM (#9920303)
That's because Russ Cox (rsc) is the very person who has rewritten a decade-old software for OEIS, as seen in the OEIS foundation page:

> It took us over a year to resolve this problem. In the end, Russ Cox completely rewrote all the programs needed to maintain the database and answer queries - a huge task! NJAS's colleague David Applegate has also been of enormous help in getting the new system working.

(http://oeisf.org/index.html#HISTORY)

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Re:The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences by rsc on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @08:57PM (#9927038)
It's true. The original software was an email auto-reply implemented in shell. The first web version of the software was CGI invoking roughly the same shell script. I didn't have anything to do with those. The next web version (which I wrote in ~2006) was CGI invoking C with an mmap'ed index file. The third web version (which I wrote in ~2010 and is the one running today) is a Go HTTP server, fronted by Apache.

Note that I'm only talking about the software for the "interactive" UI, not the database itself. The database itself goes back to punched cards and the original interactive UI was a pair of published books (first A Handbook of Integer Sequences, and then the Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences).

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