Suggested programming projects

In order to give some coherence to this list of projects, we imagine the projects fitting into some overall goal of creating a complete Lisp Operating System, containing both system software, libraries, and applications.

Applications

• An editor with excellent support for writing Common Lisp code.
• An interactive application for manipulating PDF documents.
• A font editor.
• A figure editor.
• A word processor.
• A spreadsheet program.
• An interactive accounting system.
• A web browser.
• An editor for music scores.
• A system for recovering and improving printed documents.
• A system for recovering and improving printed music scores.
• An email client.
• A calendar program.
• A dynamic geometry program.

Libraries

• A library for manipulating PDF documents.
• A library for representing and manipulating fonts and glyphs.
• A library for text shaping.
• A library for writing graphic user interfaces.
• A library for manipulating figures.
• A library of classes and generic functions for double-entry bookkeeping.
• A library for representing and manipulating documents.
• A library for checking the grammar of text in natural languages.
• A library of word classes for the English language.
• A library for communicating with compositing display servers.
• A library for decoding various video formats
• A library for two-dimensional graph layout.
• A library for managing text abbreviations.

System code

• A Lisp system with first-class global environments.
• An assembler.
• A compositing display server.
• A framework for writing device drivers.

Utilities

Games

Documentation

• A complete Common Lisp reference manual.
• A CLIM reference manual.