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

Personally, I see it as being a lisp that is more accessible to the
programmer coming from more run of the mill languages.

I am pretty new at lisp, and not very good at it (I am past the point
where parenthesis faze me). I do not feel like I can do anything
distributable with it yet.

Arc provides a lisp that is pre-tailored to a domain. I don't think
it will take very long for a newbie to post what they are doing and
show it off to the world. That alone gives Arc a huge advantage over
CL.

I do not know much about the relative power/convenience of the
dialect. I suspect that there are very few benefits, if any, to the
experienced CL crowd. However, I believe it could be a very useful
stepping stone for newer developers (and if they step to CL or not, it
doesn't even matter).


I may be wrong, but being a newb, I suspect I see the other side a
little more clearly.
Arc's value lies in its perceived *restriction* to a domain.

David
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