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Re:What Languages Fix by Zak on Sunday September 23, 2007 @04:36AM (#58505)
Arc: Common Lisp is a kludge, and Scheme has no libraries.

This seems to address the reasons the languages were created more than the reasons people continue to use them today. The former is insightful, but the latter might be more useful.

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Re:What Languages Fix by rsheridan6 on Sunday September 23, 2007 @04:53PM (#58613)
>...and Scheme has no libraries.

That's a strange reason to write a brand-new language that has even fewer libraries. If that's the problem with Scheme. I hope PG and JAR had better reasons than that.

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Re:What Languages Fix by gms on Sunday September 23, 2007 @07:30PM (#58643)
jar is working on Arc?
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Re:What Languages Fix by rsheridan6 on Sunday September 23, 2007 @08:03PM (#58647)
No, but jar was involved with T, which had the same reason according to pg.
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