Hi,
I see this list has been quiet for a while, but maybe people
are still subscribed…
I was wondering if there’s anyone in the Seattle area
who’s using Lisp (or any other functional language) either professionally
or on some medium- to large-sized project, that would let me come watch you
work for a couple hours.
I’m a computer science grad student from Oregon State,
here in Seattle for the summer on a Microsoft internship, doing a human factors
kind of study about how functional programmers go about debugging. There’s
been a lot of research into how imperative programmers do their thing, but hardly
any real-world study of FP programmers, so I think the results could provide
interesting data for future developers of debugging tools.
Anyway, if you’re interested, there’s a blog
post about it at http://blogs.msdn.com/dsyme/archive/2008/07/18/help-with-study-of-functional-programmers.aspx
(Don Syme’s blog; he’s the inventor
of F#, MS’s version of OCaml). If you think you might fit the
profile I’m looking for please let me know; I’d really appreciate
your help.
Thanks,
Chris Bogart
425-538-3562