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2 points by ebwen 5633 days ago | link | parent | on: Where are we going?

whow,

i am just learning, that my thought of learning lisp/arc seems to be futile.

what should i learn?

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6 points by andreyf 5631 days ago | link

Stop it with the meta-decisions - learning Arc will take up one thorough afternoon. It's worth it because you'll start seeing ways of writing code in any language that mimics features Arc has.

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5 points by skittles 5633 days ago | link

Clojure will give you jvm knowledge (which could help you get a job). It also forces functional programming which is becoming more important. I think everyone interested in a new lisp should help Clojure. It feels more like a viable lisp in the short term than any other.

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5 points by niels_olson 5633 days ago | link

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=342828

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1 point by ebwen 5634 days ago | link | parent | on: Building

thanx! will that work with "Arc3F" too? i get a uname not found error when i try to build with mzscheme -m -f as.scm.

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1 point by almkglor 5634 days ago | link

Arc3F has a launcher script for Linux which is supposed to work with any sufficiently Unix-like system (it's tested and works with GNU/Linux, specifically Ubuntu Hardy Heron; AFAIK the others here don't have problems, so it'll probably work with a large enough percentage of GNU/Linux systems). It also has a launcher batch file which is supposed to work with Windows; eds and b0R_ report that they have managed to run Arc3F with that batch file.

You are not supposed to use mzscheme -m -f with Arc3F, although I haven't actually tried; it might work.

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1 point by cchooper 5634 days ago | link

The uname error is not Arc4F specific. I keep meaning to look into it but then I find something more interesting to do instead :)

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