Mike Gran <spk...@yahoo.com> writes: > Hello. I'm pleased to announce the upcoming Guile 100 Programs > Project. > > The Guile 100 Programs Project is an opportunity to show off your > Guile skills in exchange for a small honorarium. > > Each week, on Monday, I'll announce a coding project and ask for > volunteers. On Wednesday, a volunteer will be chosen at random from > all entrants. The volunteer will have two weeks to complete the task. > If judged to have completed the task correctly, he or she will receive > a honorarium of 100 USD. > > The task will either be a Scheme script, a bug fix on an existing > project, or a C code with Guile bindings.
Cool idea. The Guile community is kinda small, and so it'd be nice to see some of our quieter members incentivised to hack more openly. > The first two tasks to be announced will likely be > > Mar 11, 2013 - Implement a version of the commands `cat' and > `echo' in Scheme. > > Mar 18, 2013 - Implement a reduced functionality version of the > command `ls' in Scheme. Heh, reimplementing coreutils in Scheme has been a plan of mine for a while, as part of justifying my Iteratees library, but that has taken a sideline to newer and shinier projects. -- Ian Price -- shift-reset.com "Programming is like pinball. The reward for doing it well is the opportunity to do it again" - from "The Wizardy Compiled"
