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it's funny most people didn't seek perfomance charts than support of Unicode, but this due to the general nature of the audience here in Hacker News, who are mo
by eusman 19y ago
it's funny most people didn't seek perfomance charts than support of Unicode, but this due to the general nature of the audience here in Hacker News, who are mostly web application developers, therefore one of their priorities is multi-language support, so no need to blame anyone.
One more reason Arc is not for everyone is due to its functional syntax.
I think the challenge would be how to make functional syntax accesible to the masses. Arc seems to be one step forward, although functional programming will never be for everyone.
- hernan7 19y agoOne thing I think Arc does (or intends to do) right is to be as cruft-free as possible. That is one thing you need to get functional programming to the masses. If learning FP means also having to master dotted pairs, associative tables, 13 different object comparison procedures, cadaddadr, the LOOP syntax... then you can count "the masses" right out. Add a good introductory book (the current tutorial looks good; I haven't finished it yet) and you may be onto something.