Hello all, I've been reading over all of the controversy dealing with the rewrite of the Reddit website and came across this very overdue collection of Lisp enthusiasts and I thought I would volunteer my services as well in this attempt at making Lisp more accessible. With that in mind, let me just quickly introduce myself:
My name is Christopher Roach, I'm still a fairly recent graduate in Computer Science and as such do not consider myself to be anywhere near a high calibur hacker just yet, but I have a definite love for programming and I am cultivating a newfound love for Lisp as much as possible. This past summer I took a graduate course in AI and I decided to use Lisp as my implementation language. I was the only one that chose to do so, and as such my programs were easier to maintain, quicker to code, and hell of alot shorter than the rest of the class (who chose languages such as C++ and Java). Since then, I have found myself in a bit of a love affair with Lisp and I am looking for ways to contribute to the Lisp community and hopefully learn quite a bit in return. So, Peter, if you have any ideas of work you need done (I'm definitely only a Lisp newbie at this point), I'd love to participate. Especially anything related to writing (my recently discovered hobby--I mainly write for O'Reilly, a few articles here and there and weblog on MacDevCenter). I noticed on the CL-Gardeners notes page that you mentioned Consumer Reports which would definitely entail writing and I would love to contribute to such an effort. On a side note, I think it might be a good idea to have some sort of Wiki area where members can come by and contribute to online reviews or perhaps some type of sign up sheet where a member can choose the topics he/she wishes to review. BTW, if nobody else has claimed it, I wouldn't mind looking into some of the GUI libraries (currently I am playing around with LTK on my Mac) for the Consumer Reports section. Anyway, my quick introduction is now turning into a novel, so I am definitely going to sign off. I'd love to hear your thoughts on my ideas and in the interim I am going to start working on a comparison of some of the GUI libraries and perhaps start looking into what is available for databases. Christopher _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
