Principles for Making New Things (2008)

Post by gruseom » Sun, Jul 18, 2010, 7:36 PM UTC

pg wrote: post #19

vsingh wrote: post #6

Is Arc a success on the same scale as Viaweb or Y Combinator? In the academic sense ("was it a design that influenced others?") I think the answer is yes. pg's essays about Arc and the language itself got a lot of people thinking about how to improve Lisp. Rich Hickey, creator of Clojure, was influenced to some extent by Arc. In the practical sense ("is the community active and thriving?") I think the answer is no, s…

I prefer it to Scheme or Common Lisp. But while I've spent a decent amount of time on news.arc, I haven't spent much lately on the underlying language. It turns out I can do a maximum of 2 things at once. I can't work on YC, writing, and hacking. And since YC is a given, that means I have to choose between writing and hacking. Over the last couple years I've mostly chosen writing, but that might change. Which reminds…

Post by pg » Mon, Jul 19, 2010, 4:42 PM UTC

brlewis wrote: post #32

pg wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I prefer it to Scheme or Common Lisp. But while I've spent a decent amount of time on news.arc, I haven't spent much lately on the underlying language. It turns out I can do a maximum of 2 things at once. I can't work on YC, writing, and hacking. And since YC is a given, that means I have to choose between writing and hacking. Over the last couple years I've mostly chosen writing, but that might change. Which reminds…

I'll be interested to see if having a child increases your capacity for simultaneous serious projects. It had that effect on me. I think it does that because you're forced to do lots of context switching, and eventually get better at it.

Post by projectileboy » Fri, Jul 23, 2010, 1:27 AM UTC

pg wrote: post #19

vsingh wrote: post #6

Is Arc a success on the same scale as Viaweb or Y Combinator? In the academic sense ("was it a design that influenced others?") I think the answer is yes. pg's essays about Arc and the language itself got a lot of people thinking about how to improve Lisp. Rich Hickey, creator of Clojure, was influenced to some extent by Arc. In the practical sense ("is the community active and thriving?") I think the answer is no, s…

I prefer it to Scheme or Common Lisp. But while I've spent a decent amount of time on news.arc, I haven't spent much lately on the underlying language. It turns out I can do a maximum of 2 things at once. I can't work on YC, writing, and hacking. And since YC is a given, that means I have to choose between writing and hacking. Over the last couple years I've mostly chosen writing, but that might change. Which reminds…