> It could be kept bare to keep away the digg, TC crowd etc.
Possible, but then let's just have that as a statement out in the open, then we can be done with it.
Instead of pointing people to the 'feature request' thread we could then give that as an answer. Right now it almost feels like giving someone a pacifier or a placebo.
In another thread someone literally used the words 'so he stops bothering us'.
There can be a conflict of interest between YC (ie PG) and HN users, particularly long-term ones. That's how I've come to terms with it. This forum is first and foremost a hook for entrepreneurs into YC and a way for PG to assess potential investees by their participation and statements. Everyone else is going along on their ride, at the core.
Sorry for not being more clear, I meant anything else written in arc. There are plenty of sites that use the arc code to serve up forums with a thin layer of css changes to make it look a little different.
But this was about the language, not about the news.arc implementation.
Presumably you could write anything that you want in arc, if the language stands as an individual piece of code then 'HN' is sort of an example of what arc can do. So then the question is: has anybody written any other application using arc. And I'm not aware that that has happened.
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news.arc is open-source, right? So if you want a feature, just add it.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=830156
It could be kept bare to keep away the digg, TC crowd etc.
> It could be kept bare to keep away the digg, TC crowd etc.
Possible, but then let's just have that as a statement out in the open, then we can be done with it.
Instead of pointing people to the 'feature request' thread we could then give that as an answer. Right now it almost feels like giving someone a pacifier or a placebo.
In another thread someone literally used the words 'so he stops bothering us'.
There can be a conflict of interest between YC (ie PG) and HN users, particularly long-term ones. That's how I've come to terms with it. This forum is first and foremost a hook for entrepreneurs into YC and a way for PG to assess potential investees by their participation and statements. Everyone else is going along on their ride, at the core.
That doesn't do much good if news.yc.com is never updated.
What is news.arc?
The arc source distribution. HN is built on a dialect of scheme that Paul Graham came up with.
Arc is a pretty ambitious project, a language for 'the next hundred years' (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language) ).
Not sure about how many people actually use it though, HN is the only application that I'm aware of that uses it.
Not sure about how many people actually use it though, HN is the only application that I'm aware of that uses it.
NewMogul
http://www.newmogul.com/
also uses the same software to run its site.
Sorry for not being more clear, I meant anything else written in arc. There are plenty of sites that use the arc code to serve up forums with a thin layer of css changes to make it look a little different.
But this was about the language, not about the news.arc implementation.
Presumably you could write anything that you want in arc, if the language stands as an individual piece of code then 'HN' is sort of an example of what arc can do. So then the question is: has anybody written any other application using arc. And I'm not aware that that has happened.
edit:
So, after some digging I found this:
http://docs.google.com/View?id=dgjgbnzn_123dcb5g9hc
http://arclanguage.org/forum
My Arc REPL online uses Arc on the backend, see http://dabuttonfactory.com:8080 (the code is linked there), but it's just a tiny project.
But yes, there are not so many projects using it to my Arc-forum-user knowledge too.
Where can I download the software? I like it a lot. Maybe YCombinator should sell it ;-)
http://ycombinator.com/arc/arc3.1.tar, it includes news.arc, the code running HN/NewMogul/etc and a "how-to-run-news" text file.
You need MzScheme 4 to run Arc.
See also http://arclanguage.org/install (installation instructions, but a bit out-of-date, it's for Arc 3.0) and http://arclanguage.org/item?id=10254 (Arc 3.1 announcement).