hai all,
i will come directly to the point: i want to contribute my time &
skills to CommonLisp community. i did look at CL gardners and observed
the following points:
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Here's a decidedly non-comprehensive list of other things that CL
Gardeners might tackle:
* Consumer reports Write a comparison of different libraries that
do the same or similar things. Summarize the strengths and weaknesses
of each. Include "under the hood" assessment; would I want to maintain
this if the author got hit by a bus?
* Code revival Adopt an abandoned library and clean up the bit rot.
* Code mining dig through existing open source code bases of large
applications and extract bits that can be packaged as a useful
stand-alone libraries.
* Implementation convergence help bring various CL implementations
into alignment where there's no good reason for them to differ. This
can be done by providing portability libraries or, better yet, by
doing the decidedly non-trivial work of finding a common ground that
different implementers can actually agree on and then doing whatever
it takes to convince them to make the necessary changes to their
implementation. ("Whatever it takes" in this case, likely includes
patches, test suites, documentation, and civil, egoless, participation
in relevant developer forums.)
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i liked 2nd one: "Code revival" but i never did any real-life
programming, learnt programming only from self-study i only did 2
books:
1.) "A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation" -- David S. Touretzky
2.) "Practical Common Lisp" -- Peter Seibel
i read only 1st 22 chapters of Practical Common Lisp, after that, the
practicals were a 50/50 mix of domain-knowledge & Common Lisp. Rather
than focussing on *his* domains i decided to focus on *contributing*
and then picking up a domain for that, that's why i am posting it
here.I am providing a short summary of my "introduction & psychology"
so that you folks can see where i fit in. it's down below.
specifically i am interested in stuff related to OSs.
i will appreciate any advice :-)
thanks
"arnuld"
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;; my introduction & psychology
i did my B.Sc (with comp apps) in 2003. In INDIA it is very difficult
to get a job or start your own business, even if one wants to do a
goodto his own country as our Goverenment just does not care. so i
started my professional life as salesman for "Standard Chartered
bank". i also sold watre-purifiers & insurance & did this for 2 years.
one day i was i was watching movie "Hackers" in HBO. It just *fired*
my brain. my belief was broken, according to that movie:
"life of graduates doing programming in USA does not have any
similarity to the graduates doing programming in INDIAN colleges".
i can explain but that will go lengthy, so i give you a short-summary
instead :-)
<--- i decided to do a search. enter google. for the 1st time in my
life i saw a web-page talking about Linux. I have heard of Linux (only
once) during my 3 years of graduation but our teachers told us to stay
away from Linux as it was not user friendly (yes they taught us
exactly this thing), it does not have GUI, no double-click, you can
not listen to songs, watch videos etc & out of 300 computers of my
college every every single one runs on Windows & I always heard my
"Lab technician" saying -- when we will get some better operating
systems, why the world doesn't create anything except Windows--. i
remembered his words, i was in 2nd year of graduation (DEC 2002). my
post-graduate teachers and even professors at University are so poor,
i think so now :-( ---->
anyway, after doing some search i had something like: Python, Lisp,
Scheme, Tcl/Tk, Perl, OpenSource, GNU, ESR, RMS FreeBSD, OpenBSD. (i
never heard these phrases during my graduation) and today i am here
running Debian "Sarge" x86 on my AMD64 with SBCL, CLISP as my
faourites. from last 1 year i am playing with LIGNUX (it's my
invention. rather than Linux or GNU/Linux, it is LIGNUX :-).
;; created with Emacs.
--
"the great intellectuals"
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