[Lispweb] Fw: Reddit: Let's rewrite a better one in Common Lisp.

[Marc Battyani]

"Brian Mastenbrook" <brian at mastenbrook.net> wrote:

> On Dec 6, 2005, at 1:42 PM, Marc Battyani wrote:
>
> > [I've just posted this in comp.lang.lisp but it should be of
> > interest here
> > too ;-)]
> >
> > That would be much more fun than whining. ;-)
> >
> > So let's rewrite a better one. By better one I mean adding new
> > functionalities like categories and/or comments on links for instance.
> >
> > Let's set the rules:
> >
> > Rule 1:  Anything is OK as long as it's in Common Lisp.
> > Rule 2: An exception to rule 1 is accepted for stuff like the OS
> > (Linux,
> > MacOS, etc.), Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL), Webservers (Apache), etc.
> >
> > After all there are more than enough Lisp web frameworks around
> > (TBNL, UCW,
> > AServe, CL-HTTP, Araneida, etc. ;-)
>
> Is this really that interesting of a site and project? From what I
> saw, it isn't anything that I would point to as an example of "this
> is what you can do in Common Lisp". It looks just like what everybody
> else is doing in Ruby, Python, etc. Isn't there something we can
> point to and say *this* is what you use Common Lisp for?

Well a basic site like reddit is not very interesting as such but the global
idea is. So what will be really fun and require the power of Lisp is all the
knowledge processing that could be done. Automatically finding and ranking a
link based on the past actions of a user corralated with those of others is
interesting IMO. The correlations of appreciations related the some
categorisation of the links is something to look at.

Marc