CSE 199 – IRC Chat Server in Go Programming Language 
                                                Why IRC Server?  
    Why this project?                           By learning Golang through implementing 
    The goal of this project is to create       an IRC server, this project also teaches 
    a functional IRC Server using Go            basic TCP/IP network protocols, iterative 
    Programming Language (Golang). Golang       programming, and concurrency. 
    is a new compiled and concurrent              - Learn basic packet sending and 
                                                    receiving through TCP. 
    system programming language that is           - Able to build a basic chat room, then 
    modeled off of C.                               implement features of IRC Specs 
                                                  - Goroutines provide a simple way to 
    Benefits of Golang:                             implement concurrency with chat rooms 
      - Concurrency                                 and users 
      - Type and Memory Safe                     
      - Automatic Garbage Collection            What I’ve learned 
    Disadvantage of Golang:                       - Golang is really new, and the memory  
      - No Generics                                 model hasn’t been completely defined, 
      - New, not refined                            especially with Goroutines. 
                                                  - Without Goroutines, IRC would be a 
      - No type inheritance                         lot harder to implement as parallel 
      - No method overloading                       threads is complicated. 
                                                  - Not knowing whether variables are  
                                                    allocated in stack or heap makes  
    Tools                                           it not follow standards, but is quite 
      Go Programming Language                       interesting as it has a better  
      Git and Github for version control            memory management from the garbage  
      Irssi – IRC Client for testing                collector 
              server connections