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12 @title GNU Task List | |
5120 | 13 @author Free Software Foundation |
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19 @top GNU Task List |
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22 last updated on @value{lastupdate}. | |
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25 @menu | |
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26 * Intro:: |
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27 * Highest Priority:: |
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28 * Documentation:: |
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29 * Unix-Related Projects:: |
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35 * Other Projects:: |
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36 * Languages:: |
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37 * Games and Recreations:: |
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40 @node Intro, Highest Priority, Top, Top |
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45 from any GNU FTP host in directory @file{/pub/gnu/tasks/}. The task |
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46 list is available there in several different formats: @file{tasks.text}, |
18588 | 47 @file{tasks.texi}, @file{tasks.info}, and @file{tasks.dvi}. The GNU |
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50 The task list is also available on the GNU World Wide Web server: |
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51 @uref{http://www.gnu.org/prep/tasks_toc.html}. |
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55 send you the GNU coding standards. |
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58 tools or programming languages, we have a comparative shortage of | |
59 applications useful for non-programmer users. Therefore, we ask you to | |
60 consider writing such a program. | |
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63 the GNU project, and the free software community, more than an |
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64 improvement to an existing program. |
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67 community more, in the long run, than porting existing programs. One |
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69 platforms, not just one. At the same time, there tend to be many |
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70 volunteers for porting---so your help will be more valuable in other |
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75 appreciate it very much, if they use it; but even when they benefit from |
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82 less useful. With luck, at least one of them will inspire you to start |
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94 If you are very good at C programming and interested in kernels, you can |
18588 | 95 help develop the GNU HURD, the kernel for the GNU system. Please have a |
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114 If you are a Scheme fan, you can help develop Guile. Please have a look | |
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126 Help develop software to emulate Windows NT on top of GNU systems. |
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497 Human Factors and Typography for More Readable Programs, | |
498 Ronald M. Baecker and Aaron Marcus, | |
499 Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-10745-7 | |
500 @end display | |
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16935 | 580 More scientific mathematical subroutines. |
581 (A clone of SPSS is being written already.) | |
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685 @itemize - |
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687 Space war, Asteroids, Pong, Columns. | |
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689 Defending cities from missiles. | |
690 @item | |
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691 Plane shoots at lots of other planes, tanks, etc. |
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693 Wizard fights fanciful monsters. |
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695 A golf game. | |
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696 @ignore Being done by jhall1@isd.net |
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698 Program a robot by sticking building blocks together, | |
699 then watch it explore a world. | |
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700 @end ignore |
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702 Biomorph evolution (as in Scientific American and @cite{The Blind |
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703 Watchmaker}). |
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705 A program to display effects of moving at relativistic speeds. | |
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707 @end itemize | |
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709 We do not need @code{rogue}, as we have @code{hack}. | |
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711 @contents | |
712 | |
713 @bye | |
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714 Local variables: |
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715 update-date-leading-regexp: "@c This date is automagically updated when you save this file:\n@set lastupdate " |
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716 update-date-trailing-regexp: "" |
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717 eval: (load "/gd/gnuorg/update-date.el") |
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718 eval: (add-hook 'write-file-hooks 'update-date) |
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