April 25, 2007
Arc: Now Conses Less

stupid stupid stupid stupid

Arc improvements for a faster news.ycombinator.com [via gavin and LtU]:

We just launched a new version that is 2-3x faster, thanks to Robert Morris, who rewrote some of the innards of Arc not to cons so much.

PG says “It ‘compiles’ into mzscheme. But the compilation is more like macroexpansion.”

I used to think people working on new Lisp-like languages were misguided, but after internalizing the idea that Common Lisp is static, and therefore dead, I'm a lot more sympathetic.

Posted by jjwiseman at April 25, 2007 01:53 PM
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Okay, I'll bite. Care to expand on: "I used to think people working on new Lisp-like languages were misguided, but after internalizing the idea that Common Lisp is static, and therefore dead, I'm a lot more sympathetic."?

Posted by: Andrew Lentvorski on April 26, 2007 04:01 AM
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