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Don't do it.

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6 points by markokocic 5966 days ago | link | parent | on: Things to know before learning Arc?

Learn Clojure first. After that, reconsider do you really want to learn Arc ;)

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2 points by prakash 5966 days ago | link

That's the 2nd time I have heard of Clojure in 2 days, I will take a look.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=286046

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Slime support would be nice. Some schemes and clojure already have some sort of slime integration.

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2 points by markokocic 6032 days ago | link | parent | on: Arc Code Jam

While we are at it, I can't find a link to implementation of Arc in CL.

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2 points by eds 6032 days ago | link

There is http://github.com/nex3/arc/tree/master/ac.sbcl.lisp, but it might be a little old.

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2 points by eds 6032 days ago | link

I just found http://github.com/pauek/arc-sbcl/tree/master from this old post http://arclanguage.org/item?id=5509, which seems to be where development moved after it stopped in the main arc tree... (although with that said it still doesn't seem to be under active development).

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1 point by markokocic 6160 days ago | link | parent | on: New version

It does to new users migrating from mzscheme. Not everyone is going to downgrade mzscheme to 20 revisions old package just to try out new lisp dialect.

Bringing it up to date would probably increase its adoption.

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5 points by absz 6160 days ago | link

I think he meant that updating Arc didn't make any difference to the requirements, not that using an old mzscheme doesn't make any difference, which it certainly does. I wouldn't be using Arc if there hadn't been a patch to get it working on newer mzschemes; the git "wiki" (http://git.nex-3.com/arc-wiki.git) works on said mzschemes right now. It may not be official, but it might help scratch your itch.

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