I've set up a mailing list for working on a new Common Lisp FAQ at cl- [EMAIL PROTECTED] As I discussed yesterday, the ideas is to use this list for submitting questions and proposed answers from which we will try to put together a FAQ. Discussion of the FAQ (as it comes together) and details of questions and answers is also welcome. Non- subscribers can post to the list so when I announce the CL Gardeners project (soon) I'll tell people about this list so they can send their proposals; folks can subscribe who are interested in actually working on the crafting of the FAQ. On my todo list is to set up a Subversion repository on lispniks.com where we can collaborate on projects like the FAQ. (I figure we'll run things on the standard open source model--the repo will be world readable and I'll accept patches and then give commit privileges to folks who send me too many patches.
But we don't need to wait for that to get started. The first step, is to come up with a good list of questions. Since many of the subscribers to this list are relative Lisp newbies, we can start by having folks send any questions they have now or had untili recently to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't worry too much about whether they're good or are duplicates or whatever--I'll throw them all into the hopper and see what comes out. Obviously another place we can look at for questions is the old comp.lang.lisp FAQ, though not everything in it is worth carrying over. And we should also look at the common-lisp.net project that started up a couple years ago with plans similar to ours but then fizzled out (as far as I can tell). -Peter -- Peter Seibel * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gigamonkeys Consulting * http://www.gigamonkeys.com/ Practical Common Lisp * http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
