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What (who) is gofer - definition
EMPLOYEE WHO SPECIALIZES IN DELIVERY OF SPECIAL ITEMS TO THEIR SUPERIOR(S)
Go-fer; Errand runner; Gofers
gofer
['g??f?]
(also gopher)
¦ noun informal a person who runs errands, especially on a film set or in an office; a dogsbody.
Origin
1960s: from go for (i.e. go and fetch).
Gofer
<language> A lazy functional language designed by Mark
Jones <mpj@cs.nott.ac.uk> at the Programming Research Group,
Oxford, UK in 1991. It is very similar to Haskell 1.2. It
has lazy evaluation, higher order functions, {pattern
matching}, and type classes, 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://cs.nott.ac.uk/Department/Staff/mpj/.
FTP Yale (ftp://nebula.cs.yale.edu/), {FTP Glasgow
(ftp://ftp.dcs.glasgow.ac.uk/) }, {gofer/">FTP Chalmers
(ftp://ftp.cs.chalmers.se/pub/haskell/gofer/) }.
(1995-02-14)
gofer
(gofers)
A gofer is a person whose job is to do simple and rather boring tasks for someone. (INFORMAL)
= dogsbody
N-COUNT
Wikipedia
Gofer
A gofer, go-fer or gopher is an employee who specializes in the delivery of special items to their superior(s). Examples of these special items include a cup of coffee, a tool, a tailored suit, or a car. Outside of the business world, the term is used to describe a child or young adult who is learning how to do tasks and is sent to fetch items. A similar job is that of peon in Commonwealth countries.
Examples of use of gofer
1. He became a kind of gofer, running errands that he won‘t talk about.
2. "What do you want from me, I‘m Yossi," the arresting officer reported that Gofer said.
3. He was our coffee boy, our gofer." Donnie Brasco "The most realistic mafia movie of all.
4. But to judge by the case of Ilan Gofer, 37, of Kfar Sava, we should all be worried.
5. Gofer was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to three years in prison plus an eight–year suspension of his license.