Re: [PLUG] Introduction To Lisp

On Jan 31, 2008, at 12:56 AM, Josh Goldstein wrote:

I never said parentheses were bad, I actually said they were part of it being more useful in an earlier post...
My point was more that Arc does not appear to be a better Lisp, since it appears to be just Scheme with a few macros.
That would make it still good, imo, but not a truely new language like I had expected. AFAI can tell anyone with real Scheme or Lisp experience could have written the new macros I saw on the tutorial at the ARC site and called it a new language.
They look nice enough, but not 'wow, it's a new, cool language' nice.
I also mentioned it because the tutorial/intro seemed worth reading if you want to know more about Scheme or Lisp.

My apologies. I assumed that the "looks just like scheme :(" was a statement of disapproval for the syntax. I must have missed your earlier post.

----- Original Message ----
From: Andrew Gwozdziewycz <apgwoz@gmail.com>
To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
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Subject: Re: [PLUG] Introduction To Lisp

On Jan 30, 2008 8:57 AM, Josh Goldstein <oopjosh@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Did you see Arc is out? It looks just like Scheme :(
>

It's purpose is to be a better Lisp. The problems with Lisp are NOT
that there are too many parentheses, in fact the simple syntax is a
huge win.

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