From: Jake McArthur <jake.mcarthur@...>
Date: 2006-04-19T05:27:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code -- It's back

On Apr 18, 2006, at 10:53 AM, Peter Szinek wrote:

> Hello Jake,
>
> Wow what a great idea.

Thanks.

> BTW. do you know the online python-cookbook?
>
> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Python/Cookbook/

I've heard of it, but I'm not a big Python guy, so I haven't ever  
really had much reason to browse through it or use it. I mainly only  
use Ruby and C, not for lack of understanding other languages, but  
just because they are the only ones that actually achieve their goals  
as far as I am concerned.

> It is a small subset of the possible results of the implementation of
> the idea you describe here, of course your idea is much-much more than
> this, since python cookbook is just a set of manually added code  
> snippets.

Yeah. I have known of "cookbooks," but they are really only useful if  
somebody just so happens to think that something they made would be  
useful to other people. Like you said, this is different. It works  
for things that people are actually using and continues to improve  
the entire code base over time.

> If you decide to implement DROP, be sure to put up a page/wiki/mailing
> list something so we can track your progress and send some ideas  
> (if you
> don't mind ;-)

Gladly. I will definitely be applying with it, so if any of the  
mentors here want to be my mentor, that would be the guarantee that  
it will happen soon. </hint hint wink wink> If it's not accepted, it  
will have to just go into my increasingly long queue of projects to  
do (meaning it will take forever, possibly years, just to start... by  
then I may forget).

- Jake McArthur