On 2006-04-23, Peter Seibel wrote: > On Apr 22, 2006, at 12:29 PM, Pablo Barenbaum wrote: >> I had the idea that some kind of "Lisp contest" could be good for >> getting the community together. >> >> The rest is left as an exercise to the interested reader. ;-) > > So I was thinking along similar lines recently, though not of a > contest specifically. My thought was that we should have a CL > Gardeners' Plant a Flower Day. The idea would be that we'd pick a > specific day, probably on a weekend, and anyone who wants to > participate would write, on that day, a small Lisp program that does > something neat. These programs would be like flowers--not big > gardening projects designed to Save Lisp, but small ornaments for > the Lisp garden.
+1 Ideas for Flowers, which may or may not follow your general theme of "write code". For those that don't, call them Potting Soil. :) - Install a library that you know you'll probably need eventually (like ASDF or Iterate or a Regular Expression library). Report on your experience. - Write a HOWTO about installing a library you use. - Pick any topic from a Perl/Python/Ruby cookbook and answer it. Bonus points for doing it in fewer LOC[1] than the original. :) - Pick a relatively obscure area where Lisp nevertheless shines and write about it. (For example, unification; I think I understand the basic concept, but I've never quiiiite grokked the code.) Bonus points for explaining how this could come up in "every day" programming on the web, with a database, in a GUI, etc. - Pick a CL operator or concept and write about it. Bonus points for picking one you don't understand and figuring it out. Some possibilties: packages, the read table, PROGV, LOOP, FORMAT strings, conditions. Just some thoughts. -- Larry [1] LOC, abbrev, "lines of code" _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
