On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 12:29:28PM -0800, Michael J Forster wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 12:23:45PM -0800, Peter Seibel wrote: > > On Dec 15, 2005, at 11:56 AM, Michael J Forster wrote: > > > [...] > > > I think one person should compile and post an initial list of URLs > > > and one-line summaries, rather than everyone spraying their Google > > > hits for "lisp" at the mailing list. Then--in one thread--we can > > > all sift through, refine, and add to the list until we're satisfied. > > > > > > I'm willing to do this if no one else is. Peter? > > > > You said the magic words: "I'm willing to do this". Go for it. To > > keep it simple, why don't you send to the mailing list a Lisp list of > > this form: > You said the magic words: "I'm willing to do this". Go for it. To > keep it simple, why don't you send to the mailing list a Lisp list of > this form: > > '((:url "http://www.lispniks.com/cl-gardeners/"; > :description "CL Gardeners project. Group devoted to improving > the Common Lisp Landscape.") > (:url "http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/"; > :description "Practical Common Lisp, online version of the > introduction to Common Lisp by Peter Seibel.") > ...) > > Groovy. I have work to attend to for the remainder of the day, but > I will submit a list later in the day tomorrow.
Quick update. Sorry for the delay. Tied up with work until earlier this morning. I started by skimming several of the Lisp "hub" sites (ALU, Paul Graham, cliki, vendors, open source implementations, the Common Lisp Directory & KB, and popular blogs) to distil a set of categories: * faqs * history * books * on-line references * articles * tutorials * implementations * libraries, examples & tools * applications * organizations & user groups * people * events * mailing lists, newsgroups & blogs * advocacy, selling & success stories * consultants * jobs Obviously, the categories could be sliced and diced differently, and they can be revised later. For now, I just need a structure to guide my harvesting efforts. Of course, suggestions are welcome. Next, starting again with the "hub" sites, I've been conducting a breadth-first search for topics and links and tagging them with the categories. I've modified Peter's suggested list structure accordingly. For example, '((:url "http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/"; :description "Practical Common Lisp, online version of the introduction to Common Lisp by Peter Seibel." :categories ('books)) (:url http://paulgraham.com/booklinks.html :description "Paul Graham's Lisp Links: Books" :categories ('books)) (:url "http://paulgraham.com/onlisp.html"; :description "On Lisp- By Paul Graham (1994) is a comprehensive study of advanced Lisp techniques, with bottom-up programming as the unifying theme." :categories ('books)) (:url "http://paulgraham.com/acl.html"; :description "ANSI Common Lisp combines an introduction to Lisp programming, and a convenient, up-to-date reference manual for ANSI Common Lisp." :categories ('books)) (:url "http://paulgraham.com/lisphistory.html"; :description "Paul Graham's lisp history links" :categories ('history)) (:url "http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/lisp/lisp.html"; :description "History of Lisp, John McCarthy" :categories ('history)) (:url "http://wiki.alu.org/History"; :description "ALU Wiki lisp history links" :categories ('history)) ...) After one pass, I've collected approximately 120 distinct links. My objective here is not to simply list the obvious sites, but to excavate interesting links buried within--to flatten the hierarchies. Then, we can create multiple hierarchical navigation paths for our own purposes. I'm away until Sunday evening. I'll take a moment to post what I have then and continue from there. -Mike -- Michael J. Forster Shared Logic Inc. _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
