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
