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Re:Herbie: Automatically rewrites expressions to minimize fl... by mahmud on Sunday January 24, 2016 @08:25PM (#10965028)
The language that this site is written in.
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Re:Herbie: Automatically rewrites expressions to minimize fl... by TazeTSchnitzel on Sunday January 24, 2016 @08:36PM (#10965067)
Huh? Isn't HN written in Arc?
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Re:Herbie: Automatically rewrites expressions to minimize fl... by mahmud on Sunday January 24, 2016 @08:58PM (#10965150)
Right, meant to say "the platform that powers this site".

Arc itself is an interpreter written in Racket. The site runs on racket.

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Re:Herbie: Automatically rewrites expressions to minimize fl... by barrkel on Sunday January 24, 2016 @09:07PM (#10965190)
The Arc compiler converts Arc expressions into Scheme (in the mzscheme dialect) as implemented by Racket.
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Re:Herbie: Automatically rewrites expressions to minimize fl... by lifthrasiir on Sunday January 24, 2016 @08:58PM (#10965152)
LISP people likes to refer a language modification to a "language", partly because its lexical structure is so simple and its metaprogramming makes such modification easy. But yeah, Racket and Arc are only similar in the surface syntax.
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