Re: [ANN] the Guile 100 Programs Project

[Nala Ginrut]

On Sat, 2013-02-02 at 10:16 +0800, Hengqing Hu wrote:
> Has somebody tried to implement a gnu cloud os in guile?
> 

What is 'cloud os'? 

> Or any ideas about doing this?
> 
> 在 2013-2-2，1:28，Nala Ginrut <address@hidden> 写道：
> 
> > 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
> > 
> > 
> >