The fundamental philosophy of Arc is that "hard to understand" is not an issue. It's a language for programmers who aren't afraid of learning hard things, and rarely have any trouble doing so. It's the anti-Java, if you like. So that's not really a good reason to discard the OP's idea.
wow pg thanks for arc!
i been waiting for it to come out for like year and a half!
( on a side note can you make the text in the box default by
remove textarea { color:#000000; in news.css(line 10) or
make the textarea have white background - its hard to read
black text in default black textbox)