Hi Tim:
Yes, I think this would make a useful case study.

Regards,
Steve
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Tim Cross wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Just a quick question to see what others think. 
> 
> A couple of weeks ago, I decided to set my self a well defined project
> to implement in CL. I decided to write my own podcast aggregator using
> CMUCL and avoiding using any CMUCL extensions so that "theoretically"
> it could be run under any implementation. I'm using the aserve client
> functions to retrieve RSS files and the podcasts and cl-s-xml,
> cl-pprec. 
> 
> Progress so far has been pretty good. I've got all the functions for
> parsing the RSS, retrieveing RSS and mp3 files tested and working. All
> that remains is to glue it together. 
> 
> Now my question. The program is quite short and concise (to me at
> least). I was thinking it might be intresting to somehow document my
> experiences and possibly provide some insight into using some of the
> readily available libraries etc. However, I don't think it makes use
> of any particular library extensively enough to warrant being a
> tutorial, but may possibly be an interesting case study? 
> 
> What I was thinking was maybe if I could get some feedback on the
> code, which I could then use to refine the program more, I could then
> write up the whole experience, from a newbie perspective, outlining
> some of the issues I encountered and how they were resolved, to obtain
> the first version and then outline some of the feedback recieved and
> how it led to further refinement and the final program. 
> 
> Does anyone think this would be of any interest to others, especially
> those taking their first steps in CL? If so, is there anyone out there
> with considerable experience who would be willing to review my code
> and provide critical feedback (hopefully with some explination) on
> better ways of doing things or my abuse of the language or its tried
> and true idioms. 
> 
> Tim
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