"For example, my language of choice for doing Web development now is Python. ..."
To Lisper:
It seems several people are comparing Arc to other Lisps.
I think that's somewhat unproductive. The Lisp user base is so small now that there isn't much sense "marketing" to that audience by comparing Arc to Scheme, CL, etc.
So, an alternative question: what would it take for you to use Arc instead of Python for web programming?
> It seems several people are comparing Arc to other Lisps.
Not me (at least I hope not). I was trying to judge Arc entirely by the standards that Paul set for it in his foundational essays.
> what would it take for you to use Arc instead of Python for web programming?
At the very least better documentation :-) There appear to be some really cool things in the Arc web infrastructure, but the only way to figure out how to use them at the moment seems to be to reverse-engineer the code.
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"For example, my language of choice for doing Web development now is Python. ..."
To Lisper:
It seems several people are comparing Arc to other Lisps.
I think that's somewhat unproductive. The Lisp user base is so small now that there isn't much sense "marketing" to that audience by comparing Arc to Scheme, CL, etc.
So, an alternative question: what would it take for you to use Arc instead of Python for web programming?
> It seems several people are comparing Arc to other Lisps.
Not me (at least I hope not). I was trying to judge Arc entirely by the standards that Paul set for it in his foundational essays.
> what would it take for you to use Arc instead of Python for web programming?
At the very least better documentation :-) There appear to be some really cool things in the Arc web infrastructure, but the only way to figure out how to use them at the moment seems to be to reverse-engineer the code.
Some way to seamlessly call Python modules from Arc.