Not really. If I added a condition to the contest that you didn't take into account when writing Arc, Arc would no longer do as well. When the same person designs the programming language and the contest to "prove" it's the best, the contest is likely to prove that his programming language is the best. Not due to malice, but rather because both the language designer and contest designer think exactly the same way (as they are both the same person).
When the same person designs the programming language and the contest to "prove" it's the best, the contest is likely to prove that his programming language is the best.
Ok. Now let's explore (or rather, return to) the question of whether that happened in this case.
Since I was aware people would make this type of criticism when I proposed the challenge, I made a conscious effort to make the problem very generic-- in fact to be the simplest stateful web app I could think of. In your opinion, did I succeed? Is it a simple, generic problem to ask for input on one page and display it on the next? Or is this a complex problem that requires unusual, Arc-specific functionality to solve?
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Is that what you meant?
Not really. If I added a condition to the contest that you didn't take into account when writing Arc, Arc would no longer do as well. When the same person designs the programming language and the contest to "prove" it's the best, the contest is likely to prove that his programming language is the best. Not due to malice, but rather because both the language designer and contest designer think exactly the same way (as they are both the same person).
When the same person designs the programming language and the contest to "prove" it's the best, the contest is likely to prove that his programming language is the best.
Ok. Now let's explore (or rather, return to) the question of whether that happened in this case.
Since I was aware people would make this type of criticism when I proposed the challenge, I made a conscious effort to make the problem very generic-- in fact to be the simplest stateful web app I could think of. In your opinion, did I succeed? Is it a simple, generic problem to ask for input on one page and display it on the next? Or is this a complex problem that requires unusual, Arc-specific functionality to solve?