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



Of course, I could be wrong. Who knows. But Clojure, for example, has
much more interesting ideas. However, Rich Hickey isn't as famous as
Paul Graham, so it won't gain the same traction as Arc. That's pretty sad.

I agree with that. It is hard to see much purpose in designing
new dialect so similar to existing ones. Clojure is much
bolder, although author was bit too conservative with
evaluation of maps and vectors. It would be really nice if
(setf x 1) has equivalents in [setf x 1] and, say, {:main setf
:place x :value 1}.
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