Re: [ANN] the Guile 100 Programs Project

[Nala Ginrut]

On Fri, 2013-02-01 at 16:40 +0000, Ian Price wrote:
> Mike Gran <address@hidden> 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.
> 

Maybe another new project, say, rewrite GNU with Guile, include part of
HURD, heh? I even get the name, GoG, GNU on Guile. ;-P