Code Quarterly is a programming magazine that’s currently under development with a first issue expected soon. According to their website, they are planning to focus on technical explanations, code walk throughs, interviews with notable programmers, “think pieces”, computer history, and relevant book reviews.  The editor is Peter Seibel, author of the books Coders at Work and Practical Common Lisp.  Mr. Seibel is also updating a blog to keep interested parties abreast of the magazine’s status.

To kick things off, Code Quarterly is hosting a Code Challenge that focuses on code readability (among other things) and offers the chance to hone your software design skills.  While I suspect that some extraordinary coders will be throwing their hats in the ring, I’m personally taking this as an opportunity to put my own feeble mind to use on some heavier programming than I’ve done in recent years.  Please join in the fun!

I begin my own journey by returning to the dusty Lex and Yacc book I haven’t cracked in nearly 10 years.  N.B. Using lexer generators and parser generators may violate the rules of the competition; I don’t know.