Re: A Philly Lambda Project

["Andrew Gwozdziewycz" <apgwoz@gmail.com>]

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Jonathan Tran <jonnytran@gmail.com> wrote:


>  I think one of the criteria should be that it's simple enough that we
>  can have a working prototype in a weekend so that people can start
>  playing with something.  i.e. instant gratification.  Plus, others
>  could re-write it as an exercise in fp if they desired.  More features
>  could always be added later.
>
>  Just to throw a few other ideas out there that might be conducive to
>  functional programming...
>  - A Map/Reduce library (or some other distributed computing framework)
>  - A web server
>  - A Lisp interpreter (or any interpreter for that matter)
>  - A feed aggregator

While I like the idea of something that can have a prototype in a weekend,
the ideas presented here are less interesting only because they've been
done to death. Aside from maybe the map/reduce thing.

Creating something which is useful in day to day life is a better idea, because
it shows that functional programming can be used to create actual things that
people use. It's evangelical. So, the real question is perhaps, "Does anyone
have a big project they want to do but don't have a ton of time to work on by
themselves, and wouldn't mind sharing the load with other people?"  Or, maybe
that's not the real question.


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