A Gopher Hole

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Index  CommentsAs this writing is a collection of my ideas that have not been written down before now, this page will be gradually updated and refined whenever I recall more and more of my ideas concerning the topic and feel the want. In particular, I will update this page after I write a suitable Gopher server.This is a simple notice that I now have a Gopher server running under this domain. I believe I've wanted to have a Gopher server under this domain for two years or so, but simlpy haven't done this until now. The structure of this website is already intentionally suited to a Gopher hole.I wanted to write one both in Common Lisp and Ada 2012, each, but found the available networking libraries distasteful, as they mimic BSD Sockets or have other flaws. A cursory glance at the BSD Sockets API reveals it as a disgusting mess that suits the rest of BSD and so I've begun planning my own networking libraries.I learned of xinetd and sought to use it in the interim. At first, I was surpr…