i too thought 80's and 90's hacker culture might have subsided. and not to be a fanboy or anything, but then i actually read the arc source yesterday. http://w

i too thought 80's and 90's hacker culture might have subsided. and not to be a fanboy or anything, but then i actually read the arc source yesterday. http://www.arclanguage.org/item?id=10254 http://www.arclanguage.org/item?id=10254 loaded it up like the 'how-to-run-news' file mentions. and it worked. and when you start reading the actual arc and scheme source, you may notice there is like an entire language in one file. it's crazy. it's like how your average non technical person might imagine it: there's this 'programming language file'. the whole source is like a dozen files (forget line count, the fact that you can even conceptually organize it that well is crazy). and then you start to re-read 'on lisp' -- and it's like holy crap, why was i not paying attention, and then maybe you're rewriting your code from whatever other project you were working on and basically you're happy and hacking again.... true story. i only mention it here because obviously this is hacker news and so people might be interested in hacker news.