I'm interested!

The clojure source code is a pretty good read, hehe

Jonathan

https://github.com/clojure/clojure/tree/master/src/clj/clojure

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Chris Perkins <chrisperkin...@gmail.com>wrote:

> On May 9, 2:21 am, Christian Schuhegger
> <christian.schuheg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello list,
> >
> > I have a question that perhaps may be relevant for more people. I
> > strongly believe that reading code of other people is an undervalued
> > discipline of all developers. Typically it just happens as a side
> > effect of working in a project with other people. Like that a style of
> > development evolves in a programming language community.
> >
> > You may think of projects written by other people what you like (well
> > done, poorly done), but I believe that it is always beneficial to read
> > code written by other people. I've done that in C++ and Java quite a
> > bit (ACE framework, TAO orb, STLport, Java Swing libraries, Java
> > Spring libraries, Apache Commons libraries, JBoss SEAM, ...).
> >
> > I am writing programs in Common Lisp since 1995, but up to now I never
> > worked in Lisp projects with more than me being involved. There are
> > definitely many well written Lisp projects out there and books like
> > PAIP may definitely help, too, but I was wondering if there are any
> > larger domain specific open-source projects written in Clojure out
> > there that you would recommend for reading as some sort of best
> > practice guide? I was thinking about leiningen or cake, but I would
> > prefer projects that are closer to fulfilling a business purpose than
> > a technical purpose like a build system. If the project then also
> > would have a good documentation then that would be perfect :)
> >
> > Any suggestions from your side?
> >
>
> I have been thinking for while that it would be great to have
> something equivalent to book clubs for reading code. A group could
> meet weekly, all having read the same moderate-sized project, and
> discuss. I wonder if this could be made to work as a web-app, where
> you can sign up, state your areas of interest, and have a weekly
> reading assignment emailed. Then you could meet on IRC or something.
> Just a thought.
>
> Having said that, I don't have any specific suggestions for you, but
> I'm also interested in seeing what answers you get.
>
> - Chris Perkins
>
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