>> I've decided to offer a 200 USD bounty for implementing "ClojureScript
I think you are missing a couple zeros in your offer price ;) Seriously though, these things tend to go better when you say something like "I've decided to work on this new project, who wants to help?", instead of offering a very small reward and seeming as though you are not willing to do any of the work. On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 4:29 AM, Shlomi Fish <shlo...@iglu.org.il> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've decided to offer a 200 USD bounty for implementing "ClojureScript" (a > tentative name), a Clojure API and a convenient command line utility for > performing quick system admin tasks, text manipulation tasks, command line > scripting, etc. similar to the use cases of bash/awk/sed or bash along with > /usr/bin/perl . If you're interested in doing this let me know. > > Motivation: > ----------- > > For a long time, I've desired a usable and popular dialect of Lisp, which > was > the promise of Paul Graham's Arc ( http://www.paulgraham.com/arc.html ) > and of > several other attempts, including some of my own attempts nicknamed "Park" > and > "Spark". Now, it seems that the most trendy dialect of Lisp has become > Clojure, and while I challenge some of its design decisions, it seems > pretty > nice. > > One of the things that make a language popular and likable is its utility > for > quick-and-dirty tasks. For further motivation please see: > > * http://www.paulgraham.com/popular.html > > * http://www.paulgraham.com/power.html > > * http://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/computers/perl/joy-of-perl/ > > * http://xoa.petdance.com/Stop_saying_%22script%22 > > * http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/FiveWorlds.html - see what he > says > about "throwaway" code vs. inhouse code vs. "shrinkwrap" code. > > * http://www.perl.com/pub/2007/12/06/soto-11.html - Larry Wall's > "Programming > is Hard, Let's Go Scripting". > > * > http://perl.org.il/presentations/larry-wall-present-continuous-future- > perfect/transcript.html > > (short URL - http://xrl.us/bhks6t ). > > * http://perl.plover.com/yak/12views/samples/notes.html#sl-39 - titled > "Why > Lisp Will Never Win" - comparing and contrasting Common Lisp to Awk and > Perl. > > --- > > How to do it: > ------------- > > The one who will perform the task, will look at the scripting capabilities > of > Perl 5, Ruby, Perl 6, Python, Bash and zsh (one can use Freenode for asking > questions about them) and will devise a specification for implementing > something similar in Clojure. > > Afterwards, they will implement it as a user-land, high-level API above > Clojure with a simple command line front-end tentatively called "lurk", > which > will be useful for it. Once completed, they will get the money, and credit. > > The licence of the newly written code has to be the MIT/X11 licence (see: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License ) or a similar permissive licence > compatible with both the GPLv2 and the GPLv3. > > Please let me know if you have further questions. You can contact me in > various ways here: > > http://www.shlomifish.org/me/contact-me/ > > (I prefer either one of my Jabber accounts or MSN as IM, and I don't always > have IRC on.) > > Regards, > > Shlomi Fish > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ > Why I Love Perl - http://shlom.in/joy-of-perl > > Modern Perl - the 3-D Movie. In theatres near you. > > Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
