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I had an interesting chat with Emmett last week here at justin.tv. I was whining about having to use Python instead of some kind of Lisp, and he pointed out th
by abstractbill 19y ago
I had an interesting chat with Emmett last week here at justin.tv. I was whining about having to use Python instead of some kind of Lisp, and he pointed out that the language choices at jtv have been made because of some very important libraries, much more than language features.
If Arc wants to succeed it will need to come out-of-the-box with some great libraries, and it will need to address the issue of how new libraries get "blessed" and made available. Just my humble opinion of course...
- icey 19y agoI agree ten-thousand percent about libraries, which is part of why I think it'd be just peachy to have an Arc alpha. I think it's ridiculous to expect PG & co. to be able to create a ton of libraries (or any) because they're doing so much work on the language. At least with an alpha, all of us excited kiddies can start poking around and filling in holes. Otherwise, we may all have to resign ourselves to the possibility that Perl 6 may actually release first ;)
- olavk 19y agoCant they just write a macro that automatically turns any scheme or lisp library into an Arc library?