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Ask YC: the image on PG's front page, what does it mean?
- daleharvey 17y agoits the logo for arc http://arclanguage.org/ http://arclanguage.org/
- parse_tree 17y agoWhy is that the logo? What does it mean?
- swolchok 17y agoLooks like a heavily stylized letter "a".
- catch404 17y agoA combination of an 'a' and a character position sprite (what ever they are called ;) ) The new design on the site looks nice too.
- pg 17y agohttp://www.arclanguage.org/item?id=9439 http://www.arclanguage.org/item?id=9439 Rtm noticed the white and black bits together make a lambda. That was unintentional, but I'm pleased.
- garply 17y agoActually, I believe it reads 'arc'. You just need to stretch a bit to see the 'r' and 'c'.
- clay 17y agoWas Mondrian an arc hacker?
- zitterbewegung 17y agoNo he primarily programmed in Piet See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_(programming_language) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_(programming_language).
- pg 17y agoGood catch. It's not a coincidence; he had similar goals.
- mlLK 17y agoSimilar goals as in what? Are these goals for a Neoplastic utopia? [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Plasticism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Plasticism] >They [propenets for neoplasticism] advocated pure abstraction and universality by a reduction to the essentials of form and colour; they simplified visual compositions to the vertical and horizontal directions, and used only primary colors along with black and white. Are you proposing something similar with Arc?
- pg 17y agoHe wanted to make the best things he could out of the simplest ingredients.