[Gardeners] [ANN] Vim can talk to Lisp! v0.04 of SLIMPL available

[Peter Seibel]

On Jan 29, 2006, at 5:25 AM, Paolo Amoroso wrote:

> Larry Clapp <larry at theclapp.org> writes:
>
>> The SLIMPL project is pleased to announce the first major  
>> milestone: a
>> Perl module that can send an expression to Lisp and get a result  
>> back,
>> and a Vim module that can call it.  Vim can talk to Lisp!
> [...]
>> Green Thumbs: Please check out the SLIMPL page, linked below.  What
>> more would you like to see to give your blessing and Plant this bad
>> boy?
>>
>> -- Larry Clapp 
>>
>> [1] http://wiki.alu.org:80/Perl_interface_to_SLIME
>
> Interesting progress.  You may make more clear how others can
> contribute, e.g. by making section Tasks/Anybody more prominent and/or
> explicit.  Other than that, it looks good.

I agree with that. Remember that the overarching point of the  
Gardeners project is to provide a structure that makes it easy to  
channel the enthusiasm of new Lispers into productive work. The  
current "Anybody to do" section could also be labeled "Hard stuff  
nobody really knows how to do" section. It would be easier for a new  
Gardener to jump in and help out if there were some smaller tasks  
that anybody willing to devote a little time to it could have a  
reasonable hope of accomplishing. By all means keep the hard stuff on  
there too--it'd be great if someone got motivated to tackle those (or  
if someone comes along who just happens to be an expert on vim  
internals)--but they shouldn't be the only ways for folks to contribute.

-Peter

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