Re: A Philly Lambda Project

["Jonathan Tran" <jonnytran@gmail.com>]

You're right.  I've made the silly mistake of re-inventing the ICFP contest. :-P

Just forget I said anything.

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Kyle R. Burton <kyle.burton@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  >  On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Aaron Feng <aaron.feng@gmail.com> wrote:
>  >  > > This sounds fun.  But I would rather build something I (and other
>  >  > > people) can actually use.
>  >  >
>  >  > Do you have anything in mind?
>
>  That's a great question! ;)
>
>
>  >  I've found that starting a project is difficult because it requires
>  >  uniting a group of people, having them all believe in a single idea.
>  >
>  >  However, this group is already united around the idea of functional
>  >  programming.  Is it not?  So why not start a project that we all can
>  >  work on to learn fp?  I've always said that the best way to learn
>  >  functional programming (or anything for that matter) is to simply do
>  >  it.  That's how I learned.  If we had a project -- a goal -- real and
>  >  useful scenarios would come up, and we could all learn from each other
>  >  how to deal with them in the functional style.
>  >
>  >  But at the same time, if our efforts were focused, we could build
>  >  something  no single one of us could build alone, and come out on the
>  >  other side with a major accomplishment.
>  >
>  >  "The gods lift those who lift each other."
>  >
>  >  So basically, what I'm saying is, the specifics of the project
>  >  shouldn't matter as long as they're conducive to functional
>  >  programming, assuming that learning is our actual goal.
>
>  Hrm...not really answered... ;)
>
>  >  Who's with me?
>
>  What do you have in mind?  Anything more concrete than 'something useful'?
>
>  I'm sure several people will be interested, but you need a concrete
>  "we're doing to do X!" where X is something like:
>
>   - haskell (or other FPL) IDE extensions, debugger, profiler, coverage
>     analysis, completion, documentation integration
>    - Eclipse plugin? (like CUSP); Emacs extensions?  Something else?
>   - code anlaysis tools: a duplication tool? for analyzing java
>  codebases for code 'shape' (a step
>    beyond cut and paste)
>   - a suped up classifier library (polychotomous classifier) for
>  documents (web pages)
>    which learns from your del.icio.us bookmarks to build a model, plus
>  a FF plugin
>    that shows you the tags you would use for new pages you visit?
>   - yet another todo list application (dontforgetthemilk)
>   - as a way to get people's feet wet, with concrete experience, the
>  ICFP contest? *ducks*
>
>  Kyle
>