[cl-faq] Getting to Google's #1 spot

[Peter Seibel]

On Jan 12, 2006, at 3:13 PM, Larry Clapp wrote:

> The *current* #1 spot on Google for "lisp faq" is at
> http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/faqs/lang/lisp/top.html.
> Aspiring FAQ answerers with nothing else to do could do worse than
> taking some of the questions & answers in it and bringing them up to
> date for 2005.

Indeed. Another resource is the slightly newer Lisp FAQ that  
attempted to do what we're trying to do--to wit create an updated  
Common Lisp FAQ--but then ran out of steam. It's at:

   <http://common-lisp.net/project/lispfaq/FAQ/>

One of the maintainers (Christophe Rhodes of SBCL fame) gave me  
permission the other day to lift anything I want from there.

Even if you're not sure you're ready to take a crack at updating any  
of these questions, a quite useful thing to do would be to convert  
questions from either or both of those FAQs into Markup form a la

   <http://www.lispniks.com/faq/faq.txt>

If you send them to me in that form at least then I can drop them  
into our FAQ and start editing. In theory the new FAQ is in docbook  
format so someone who wants to play around with some Lisp hacking  
could probably figure out how to slurp that in and dump it out as  
sexps which can then be converted to markup fairly easily.

-Peter


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