Choice excerpts:
I don’t want to spend even one day dealing with character sets. Character sets are a black hole. I realize that supporting only Ascii is uninternational to a point that’s almost offensive, like calling Beijing Peking, or Roma Rome (hmm, wait a minute). But the kind of people who would be offended by that wouldn’t like Arc anyway.
Apparently the only people who like Arc are people who use toy software that only they and their friends use. And none of them speak a language requiring a non-Latin character set.
Because Arc is tuned for exploratory programming, and the W3C-approved way of doing things represents the opposite spirit.
Durrrr, designing like it’s 1997 is great, because that’s the last time I learned anything new!
One is always a bit sheepish about writing quick and dirty programs. And yet some, if not most, of the best programs began that way.
On the Internet, you can make whatever claims you want without the need to ever provide evidence or facts. And if you disagree, you’re a moron who doesn’t understand closures or exploratory programming.
Nevertheless, I enjoyed my time with SLIME and SBCL during college, so I’ll try to give Arc a look one of these days. Maybe when it’s not so racist and has a cool app implemented in it.
