Is anybody solving really cool problems anymore?
st-keller: We're designing a new "evaluation-system". It uses a new pure functional, time-unaware, inherently parallel core which works without using monads.
The core can be considered as a read-eval-print loop without the "read" and the "print".
If it works, we will solve some problems which mostly are not considered to be problems. If it doesn't work, we learned more about programming that i ever could have imagined.
In short: Yes, some people do some things they themself consider as really cool :-)