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- From: "Andrew Gwozdziewycz" <apgwoz@gmail.com>
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- Subject: Re: Arc misunderstood
- Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:23:44 -0500
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PG really wants to use arc for the rest of his life, and as such doesn't want to make any design decisions he's going to regret. It's the language he wants his kids to use when they're in college, a language like C, which is not forgotten about when Rubython is the next fad in 20-30 years.
I think the only way this can conceivably be done is to write real things with it, let other people write real things with it, and study the results of these experiments and iterate. This takes real time, time that obviously the initial adopters of arc weren't expecting to be subjected too, and will likely move on. Those with real interest in the language will be patient, write code, submit patches and give actual feedback about actually using the language to Paul, and when Paul gets a chance he'll consider the feedback, integrate patches, etc. He seems like a decent enough person.
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 8:51 AM, Aaron Feng <aaron.feng@gmail.com> wrote:
It seems like pg cares more about "seeding" the community with arc at
the moment. Maybe the next version is coming 50 years from now!
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 1:33 AM, Jonathan Tran < jonnytran@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Not to take any steam away from Mike's presentation on Clojure (which
> was great, by the way), but we started talking about Arc afterwards
> and I found this post on the Arc language forum where the community
> expresses its frustrations with Paul Graham not iterating Arc fast
> enough.
>
> http://arclanguage.org/item?id=8462
>
> PG's response is especially interesting. There is also some
> comparison to Clojure.
>
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