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Re:Beating the Arc Challenge in Haskell by lg on Saturday December 19, 2009 @08:54PM (#1005569)
I thought the point of the arc challenge was to say to ruby/rails, smalltalk/seaside, python/django, etc., "hey, look what my language/libraries can do, can yours do this? or better than this?" If the answer is "no, I need to write a new library to do that sort of thing, or rewrite my existing one," then arc beat your language/library at the challenge.
Re:Beating the Arc Challenge in Haskell by eru on Sunday December 20, 2009 @02:39AM (#1005888)
Doesn't Scheme/Arc fall in the same category? One could view Arc as a Scheme-implemented DSL for web applications, or not?
Re:Beating the Arc Challenge in Haskell by pg on Sunday December 20, 2009 @02:42PM (#1006471)
No; Arc has good libraries for writing web apps, but the basic Arc language is a completely general Lisp.