5:23:29beachHere is a suggestion for an important project that can be done in a weekend or so: Implement the algorithm for reading and writing floating-point numbers designed by Aubrey Jaffer, and described in his paper "Easy Accurate Reading and Writing of Floating-Point Numbers".
5:24:47beachIt should be possible to implement these algorithms in portable Common Lisp, so they could be turned into one of the portable SICL modules, or even better, into a separate repository.