David A. Wheeler wrote: > A version of Paul Graham's "Arc" is out. This is another Lisp dialect. More > info at: > http://paulgraham.com/arc.html > http://ycombinator.com/arc/tut.txt > http://arclanguage.org
Excellent. I'm glad you brought this up, because Slashdot has failed me. I've been fairly interested in the development of this language. I don't agree with Graham on every aspect of language design (he's a Lisper, what can I say...), but I respect his opinions and choices. IMO he shot himself with the "[]" syntax. > Arc does interesting things, but for the most part it's a back-to-basics Lisp > dialect > (though with a number of differences due to rethinking)... It looks like a lot of the work went into removing spurious parenthesis - in "let" and "with", and even "[]". That should make it even more amenable to indentation-based syntax. Neil ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Readable-discuss mailing list Readable-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/readable-discuss
