Re: Paul Graham's Arc is released today... what is the long term impact?

On Jan 29, 10:55 pm, use...@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
http://paulgraham.com/arc0.html

This is a big day for Lisp hackers anyway. Has anyone here had a
chance to play around with Arc yet? What do you think will be the long
term impact of Arc on CL?

I liked this quote: "Which is why, incidentally, Arc only supports
Ascii. MzScheme, which the current version of Arc compiles to, has
some more advanced plan for dealing with characters. But it would
probably have taken me a couple days to figure out how to interact
with it, and I don't want to spend even one day dealing with character
sets. Character sets are a black hole. I realize that supporting only
Ascii is uninternational to a point that's almost offensive, like
calling Beijing Peking, or Roma Rome (hmm, wait a minute). But the
kind of people who would be offended by that wouldn't like Arc
anyway."

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