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It'd be really great if PG would consider doing an alpha release of Arc sometime. To me, there appears to be a mini-Lisp revolution going on right now, largely
by icey 19y ago
It'd be really great if PG would consider doing an alpha release of Arc sometime. To me, there appears to be a mini-Lisp revolution going on right now, largely thanks to PG & reddit. It'd be a shame to let that energy dissipate as people grow tired of waiting for it to come out.
I know the excitement that I have for Arc isn't as much the "100 year language" issue as much as the need to have strong leadership for a Lisp. I think that this is evident by the difficulties the various CLs have when introducing new functionality to the language vs. a package, or the whole R6RS fiasco that's been driving the Schemers mad.
- michaelneale 19y agoI would second that. At the risk of hyperbole, the "mini-lisp revolution" could be one of the more important things to happen to the state of the art. Lisps just have so much going for them, but common lisp can not be the answer. No idea about arc, but at least there is some potential for leadership to be shown. People need to just start using stuff for "hobby" projects. Its possible that lisp could become very popular, due to "language oriented programming" - which is just a silly name to attract people (notice how "DSLs" are now so popular, well lisp is nothing if not a platform for creating a DSL which solves your problem for you). heh, its not anything knew, I think words to that effect are mentioned in the SICP notes.