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7 points by Xichekolas over 2 years ago | link
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Ask PG: Will Arc ever be meta-circular?
7 points by Xichekolas over 2 years ago | link
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"The most vicious Arc-flogging so far"
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Seriously, the first draft of this thing is released and the guy is pissed because it doesn't support every feature that CL has accumulated over the last 40+ years and more?

Give me a break.

I hope the author of that post only releases his products when they are perfect in every way and support every feature that could ever be desired. That way I'll never have to see his code.

If I recall, the mantra is 'Release Early, Release Often' ... not 'Anything Released Is The Final Version For All Time'

"I hereby propose..."
5 points by Xichekolas over 2 years ago | link | parent | top
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Well if Arc Hackers are called Arcists, shouldn't Arc Haters be called Anarchists?
"Subseq is verbose compared to ranges in Ruby and Python"
4 points by Xichekolas over 2 years ago | link | parent | top
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Yes, he did.
"Proposed enhancement to the arc.arc spec."
4 points by Xichekolas over 2 years ago | link | parent | top
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I prefer inline comments with explanation and examples. If you want a somewhat decent example, think of (dare I say it) Javadoc comments and Rdoc comments. Someone just needs to write something (in arc of course) to parse .arc files and build up html docs, then you can have them on a website and in the code, but the code is the authority.

(In fact, this gives me something to do tonight.)

"This is probably a really bad idea."
4 points by Xichekolas over 2 years ago | link | parent | top
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Yeah something like the timelime feature in trac would be nice to see the diffs and commits. Would also probably make it easier to notice people slipping in those calls to 'rm -rf /' with system and back those out.
"Unicode a matter of political (in)correctness?"
4 points by Xichekolas over 2 years ago | link | parent | top
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If you are scared to open your mouth and sound like a moron, you'll never get any practice at all.

Learning a second language is a lesson in humility. Trying going to a spanish cafe and asking for a 'bocadillo de polla' (instead of the correct 'bocadillo de pollo') ... that 'a' at the end is the difference between a 'dick sandwich' and what you most likely really wanted, a 'chicken sandwich'.

Had to learn that one the hard way myself. I'm sure the waiter in Sevilla is still laughing.

"I hereby propose..."
3 points by Xichekolas over 2 years ago | link | parent | top
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I like Architect... let PG be the Archangel.
"Ask PG: And the canonical source is...?"
2 points by Xichekolas over 2 years ago | link | parent | top
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Well... it is the best kind of dictatorship...
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