Hi Tim: Yes, I think this would make a useful case study. Regards, Steve ////////////////
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 > _______________________________________________ > Gardeners mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners > > -- Steven H. Rogers, Ph.D., [EMAIL PROTECTED] Weblog: http://shrogers.com/weblog "He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense." -- John McCarthy _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
