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Re: Neat hacks for a birthday
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John Darrington |
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Re: Neat hacks for a birthday |
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Thu, 9 Feb 2012 08:01:10 +0000 |
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On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 09:54:23PM +0100, Ludovic Court?s wrote:
Hello Guilers!
Next week, on February 16th, is the first anniversary of Guile 2.0!
Like all great events, it ought to be celebrated.
So, here???s a suggestion: let???s write neat hacks that integrate Guile
with some other piece of software, preferably GNU packages. Examples
include extending GCC or GDB extension in Guile, work on Mike???s
Zile-on-Guile, enhanced Guile support in GNU Make, and Hurd file systems
written in Guile.
Of course, like all quick hacks, these will essentially be proofs of
concept, but hey, perhaps some will eventually become actual software
packages?
If you???re up to the challenge, you???re welcome to announce your intent
here. On Feb. 16th, we???ll collect the list of neat hacks and let the
world know!
One small GNU package to hack is Gnubik. This is the GNU answer to the Rubik
Cube,
and the web page is at http://www.gnu.org/software/gnubik
Thanks primarily to Dale Mellor, it already has a Guile interface. However, it
works by wrapping the implementation, which is in C. I have some ideas to
turn it
around, such that the low level stuff is implemented in Guile, with the display
stuff remaining in C, and just serving as a view into the cube.
If this was done, then it would make the extent of things that could be done on
the
Guile side a lot more extensive. That way mathematicians who are C illiterate
could
produce some wierd and wonderful things like 4+ dimensional hypercubes.
If anyone wants to help do this, let me know and I'll give a hand wherever it's
required.
J'
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- Neat hacks for a birthday, Ludovic Courtès, 2012/02/08
- Re: Neat hacks for a birthday, Ian Price, 2012/02/08
- Re: Neat hacks for a birthday, Mike Gran, 2012/02/08
- Re: Neat hacks for a birthday,
John Darrington <=
- Re: Neat hacks for a birthday, Atom X, 2012/02/10
- Re: Neat hacks for a birthday, Atom X, 2012/02/10
- Re: Neat hacks for a birthday, Ludovic Courtès, 2012/02/12
- Re: Neat hacks for a birthday, Ludovic Courtès, 2012/02/16