Have you look at Scsh? http://www.scsh.net/about/what.html
It's not the most trendy, but being a Scheme at least is nice. Anyone capable of doing the job properly either won't take any money or won't come cheap, so you might be better of offering a round of beer or request bids. On Mar 4, 1:29 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
