[Gardeners] Gardening comp.lang.lisp

[Pascal Bourguignon]

Stuart Sierra writes:
> Ian Eslick <eslick at csail.mit.edu> writes:
> > Proposal:
> >      1) Pull together a repository of common lisp
> > utilities under an MIT or BSD style license (no
> > restrictions) to try to enable the world of
> > asdf-installable packages to come to depend on a single
> > common library and so that newcomers will have a body of
> > existing code they can exploit to save time and effort.
> 
> As a corrolary to this, what about doing something with all
> the great code samples that get posted to comp.lang.lisp
> every day?  I admit c.l.l. can be a scary place sometimes,
> especially for newcomers, but there are some smart people
> there who whip up all kinds of useful little utilities, if
> only to prove how smart they are.  It's unfortunate that so
> much of this gets lost in the archives, never to be seen
> again.
> 
> So how about this: Someone (I volunteer to start) watch
> comp.lang.lisp for interesting and useful bits of code,
> label and categorize them, and store them at some central
> location where they can be found again.  cl-user.net would
> probably be a good place.  Even better, wrap each utility up
> in a package with a descriptive name and make it
> ASDF-installable.  That would require a place to host lots
> of little tarballs, maybe common-lisp.net or even
> lispniks.com.

I think the cookbook format would be more useful for these code snippets.


> When possible, one could contact authors while their posts
> posts are still fresh in their minds and ask for permission.
> But often several authors contribute to the same piece of
> code.  In general, I think it's safe to assume that anything
> posted to Usenet is public domain.  If anyone complains
> about something we re-post, just take it down.
> 
> Think of it as picking flowers in the Lisp Garden.  Gotta
> love these metaphors.  :)



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__Pascal Bourguignon__                     http://www.informatimago.com/
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