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Lisp In Summer Projects: Coding Competition
- duggieawesome 13y agoThis sounds fantastic. I've been going through SICP, and this is a great outlet to try my hand a real project in Scheme.
- krat0sprakhar 13y agoSame here! Off-topic - Which Scheme dialect are you using to practice the SICP? I'm using Racket!
- jeffwass 13y agoI've also been going through SICP, using racket. However, I've been using Neil van Dyke's SICP-compliant support package, so I feel my use is closer to SICP scheme than racket (if that claim even makes sense) I use this line at the top of my scripts : #lang planet neil/sicp See here: http://www.neilvandyke.org/racket-sicp/ http://www.neilvandyke.org/racket-sicp/
- dizzystar 13y agoYes, it makes absolute sense, there are quite a few things in SICP that aren't "legal" in Racket. Using the Van Dyke plugin is an absolute must for SICP on Racket, IMO.
- zackzackzack 13y agoHow does one go about signing up?
- shared4you 13y agoAt the very bottom of the page: June 1: signup June 24: development begins Sept 30: contest ends Oct 7: winners announced So, signup period is June 1 to June 24.. I guess
- bgruber 13y agosorry about this. i think the HN post caught us slightly off guard. we'll have more details real soon now.
- muuh-gnu 13y agoWhen are you going to give up the capitalized acronym LISP? It has the same archaic vibe and makes you want to code in it as much as in FORTRAN. Just call it Lisp.
- ogdoad 13y agoThe language name is actually "lisp", it's the enlightened converts' enthusiasm that causes them to shout it from the treetops. One would guess.
- S4M 13y agoThey don't consider Emacs Lisp as a Lisp !? Writing a(nother) cool plugin for emacs should be worth at least some praise.
- chimeracoder 13y ago> Development must be in LISP (typically Common Lisp, Clojure or Scheme) or English. Shouldn't that be and English? Further down: > All Entries must be coded in LISP, typically this is Common Lisp, Clojure or Scheme. The determination of exactly what is a LISP is up to the discretion of the Judges. Haskell, Erlang and Smalltalk are not LISPs and will be disqualified. > All Entries must be in English unless otherwise specified.
- brudgers 13y agoIt's Lisp, so writing about Lisp rather than in Lisp is potentially awesome, e.g. the ideas page lists "serious documentation projects" and "Maccarthy fanfic" as possible entry points. One of the distinguishing features of Lisp is that people write love songs to it.
- agilescale 13y agoQuality trolling. A++, would read again.
- gcr 13y agoBeing serious for a moment, quality documentation is an area where many lisps could use improvement.
- agilescale 13y agoYes, I've seen it Clojure, where the documentation is extensive, giving great coverage to its standard library... but still haves you reading the source and searching the web for examples after reading the description, especially when speaking about macros (so... does this receive a vector? Does it take its arguments as a list, or what? A mixture of both?) Racket goes full in the other direction, to a fault, even though it's much preferable.Racket's documentation is at times hard to wade through because it's so extensive. You have to scroll through the treatises and descriptions of options to find an example usage which will get you out quickly, but it's, for once, all there in the manual.
- zhemao 13y agoOh god, it's a recursive acronym where the first word can also be an acronym for something else. I'm not sure what you would call that. An ambiguously recursive algorithm?
- kostya-kow 13y agoIt would've been mutually recursive if Lisp (language) stood for something else which referenced Lisp (contest). But it doesn't, so you probably discovered a new type of recursive acronyms. Hurd is an example of mutually recursive acronym: "The GNU Hurd project is named with a mutually recursive acronym: "Hurd" stands for "Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons", and "Hird" stands for "Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth."" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_acronym http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_acronym
- pavelludiq 13y agoThere is a book called Lisp in Small pieces, which I assume inspired the name, also a lisp tutorial called "Lisp in small parts": http://lisp.plasticki.com/ http://lisp.plasticki.com/ also probably inspired by the book title.
- neutronicus 13y agoA recursive acronym with a termination condition.
- ohyes 13y agoA recursive acronym with a shift/reduce conflict.
- zhemao 13y agoOh god, it's a recursive acronym where the first word can also be an acronym for something else. I'm not sure what you would call that. An ambiguously recursive algorithm?
- pauldelany 13y ago"Q: Why can't citizens of Cuba, Iran, Myanmar (Burma), North Korea, Sudan, Syria, Brazil, Italy, Quebec, and Saudi Arabia participate? A: Lisp In Summer Projects is similar to Google's Code-It, which is where the requirement originated. Lisp In Summer Projects does not have access to Google's cadre of lawyers and cannot invite legal risk to ourselves, our associates or our sponsors." -- what's up with Brazil, Italy and Quebec that they're on this list, can anyone tell me?
- why-el 13y agoAnd Syria, and Sudan, and Saudi Arabia? As far as I can tell these countries are in good relation with the US, some even great allies.
- halter73 13y agoSyria certainly does not have good relations with the US. Currently the White House is considering providing more, potentially lethal aid to Syrian rebels. The White House Press Secretary has stated it is "highly likely" that the Assad regime has used sarin nerve gas. US relations with Sudan is not much better due to the humanitarian crisis in Darfur. [1] http://bigstory.ap.org/article/white-house-assad-likely-behind-chemical-arms-use http://bigstory.ap.org/article/white-house-assad-likely-behi... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_response_to_the_War_in_Darfur http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_response_to_the_W...
- kbrowne 13y agoQuebec has restrictive laws governing contests in which prizes are awarded.
- moron4hire 13y agoso basically admitting to cargo cultism
- edran 13y agoThis is the second time I see Italian people banned from a coding contest - the first being Google Code-in, but they had problems with paying under-age students [0]. Here instead you are allowed only if >18 years old, so I assume the problem lies in our monolithic and bloated taxes regulations. Sigh. [0] http://goo.gl/vnzL3 http://goo.gl/vnzL3
- tekacs 13y ago> You're free to create whatever you would like, such as: > - ... > - Heroku and Google App Engine Creating a pair of PAAS hosting providers? Now that would be impressive. More seriously, the wording could well be revised a little for those who aren't familiar with the services/those without common sense/those as pedantic as am I (the latter sounds like a set which would overlap soundly with LISPers :P). Looks great, though! :)
- fabriceleal 13y agoThis was previously called Lisp in Small Projects. This link redirects to Lisp in Summer Projects: http://lispinsmallprojects.org/ http://lispinsmallprojects.org/ Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5564828 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5564828
- sokoloff 13y agoThat discussion link isn't particularly enlightening. (0 comments)
- fabriceleal 13y ago... hence the italic. Nonetheless, predates this link :) Shameless plug: I submitted the old link.