Re: About Arc

In the last episode, on Thursday 14 Sivan 5767 18:16, Ken Tilton wrote:



mikel@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On May 31, 8:00 am, Jeff Rollin <jeffrey.rol...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In the last episode, on Thursday 14 Sivan 5767 14:55, fireblade wrote:


On May 31, 3:51 pm, fireblade <slobodan.blaze...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On May 31, 3:19 pm, xbit....@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Hello guys, I want to find something about Arc the new lisp dialect by
Paul Graham. I could not found anything about except of short
description in one of the Paul Graham esseys. Where can I find
language specification, sources or more detailed description?

Yuri.

If you'd like to try Arc, send an email to try...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx and
the'll notify you when there is something online to experiment with.

While you're waiting use Common Lisp .

Why does Paul Graham suggest using CL, when Arc is implemented on top of
Scheme?

Or to put it another way, if he prefers CL why implement Arc on top of
Scheme?


Well, Paul Graham doesn't usually post here, so any answer you get is
going to be speculative.

That said, one can prefer different language implementations for
different purposes. Maybe he doesn't prefer Scheme,

I believe he might. The quote I recall is something along the ideas of
liking Lisp but Common Lisp sucks. Too big, COND has too many parens,
which latter I was surprised to see is also a McCarthy quote.

kt

Meh. Assuming Scheme has sufficient libraries to bring it up to the
functionality of CLtL2, would Scheme + libraries be any smaller than CL?

Jeff
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