| Re: Arc, NewLisp, Qi, and What Languages to Hate? |
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Group: comp.lang.functional · Group Profile
Author: KennyKenny Date: Aug 24, 2008 08:43
Daniel Pitts wrote:
>> Arc is one of the despicable worthless shit there is.
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>> Arc is the type of shit that when some person becomes famous for his
>> achivement in some area, who began to sell all sort of shit and
>> visions just because he can, and people will buy it.
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> That might be true, but I'd love it if you expounded on why you believe
> that? I don't have a lot of lisp experience, so I need someone to
> highlight facts about why Arc is bad comparatively.
PG bet the ranch on terser code at all costs, including all sorts of
whacky syntax that is so whacky bits of it conflict and cannot be used
in combination. It was starting to look like Python when I left town.
And of course the single namespace is a disaster. Oh, and the absence of
an OO package.
kt
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