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by benmathes 19y ago
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- henning 19y agoSuper-duper. I'm not going to use Arc for anything serious until essential libraries are in place.
- Xichekolas 19y agoDarn. At least you were kind enough to let us know.
- pg 19y agoDifferent people have different ideas of serious. To me, exploratory programming is fairly serious, because that's the kind of programming that generates ideas. Arc is already capable of supporting some subset of applications that are serious in your sense. News.YC is at least moderately serious in that sense.
- henning 19y agoYou said News.YC uses some kind of persistent hash structure for storing everything. This seems to me like Greenspun's Tenth Law except with Berkeley DB instead of Common Lisp; I wouldn't want to write the logic to do what BDB already does much better and faster (I don't want to implement ACID transactions myself if I decide I need them).
- niels_olson 18y agonews.arc stores all information in flat files as lists.
- sammyo 19y agoWell you'll be late to the table for Web 3.0 then... ;-)
- benmathes 19y agoclarification: Arc should probably have some kind of database hook at some point, not much point in reinventing that wheel when it works so well for many problems. But that's not the point, as the author has repeatedly pointed out.