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7 points by tjr over 2 years ago | link | parent | top
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But then he'd only have seven.

6 points by tjr over 2 years ago | link | parent | top
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I would like to see a small ant with an antique pocketwatch eating a pie.

6 points by tjr over 2 years ago | link | parent | top
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I've seen the price of a used copy of On Lisp rise over the years... now circa $400? With a PDF available free of charge from pg's website?

I highly value good books, and this is one of the best CS books out there, but even so, I'm surprised at the market value for a used copy.

Not complaining, just observing and wondering. Carry on.


5 points by tjr over 2 years ago | link | top
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Nothing against Arc, but don't forget that Scheme also lets you write:

(define (square x) (* x x))


5 points by tjr over 2 years ago | link | top
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Continuations:

arc> ccc

#


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Modulo operator:

arc> (mod 23 4)

3


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4 points by tjr over 2 years ago | link | parent | top
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Well, pg is probably one of them... and some folks likely really are in a position to use whatever language they like.

My day job is avionics software verification, so I don't program much for my job, per se, but what programming I do, I could likely do in Arc, and no one would care, as it's just for internal use.


4 points by tjr over 2 years ago | link | top
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Surely more documentation is forthcoming from pg when he has time, and some other folks will likely write up docs until then. I started on "redocumenting" the arc spec file, but I don't have oodles of free time myself... A wiki-esque page would be nice.

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I'm running an instance of the news software; very few users right now. Using Apache to reroute port 80 requests; MzScheme 352.

No problems, but also only handling trivial loads.