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2 points by kinnard 3324 days ago | link | parent

Welcome!!! Best place to pester might be the github: https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/issues.

Though I think a real stack exchange community is in order.

As to your question, I'm not qualified to answer, but it depends on your goals. What are your goals?

EDIT: Probably not though. Arc is intended to be "powerful"[1] not "educational" and Arc doesn't behave the way scheme does in(I believe) a lot of cases, e.g.: https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/issues/48

[1] http://paulgraham.com/power.html



2 points by akkartik 3324 days ago | link

I'm not sure how many people here follow the github account, so if you have questions just post them here. Don't worry about creating too many posts or comments, it's not like there's a lot of contention here :) Just do what works best for your learning, and we'll let you know if we want you to scale back.

If you see something broken or have suggestions to improve the documentation, post them on Github.

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2 points by Styx 3324 days ago | link

Yeah I figured that would be the deal getting into it, but I'm still willing to learn it. I think the whole philosophy is really neat.

I think what I'm going to try to do is continue to play around with Arc, while also learning on something a bit more established. Maybe Scheme or Clojure.

Thanks for the advice.

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3 points by kinnard 3324 days ago | link

Is there something you have in mind to build?

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3 points by Styx 3324 days ago | link

Well, I was thinking about building a chess engine in it at some point. But then, I intended to read a few books between now and then.

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3 points by kinnard 3324 days ago | link

That would be cool! "Chess engine" means no graphics, right?

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2 points by Styx 3324 days ago | link

Right. I created one in Ruby not too long ago. Then I decided I wanted to see it in the browser, so I used something called Opal to convert my Ruby code to JS. Then I built up the necessary html/css.

It's over at https://rawgit.com/Styx-/personal_website/master/index.html under projects if you want to see it.

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1 point by Styx 3324 days ago | link

Also, how much effort would it take to do something similar in Arc?

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1 point by kinnard 3324 days ago | link

You know . . . I have no idea . . :)

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