{"id":57,"date":"2005-09-22T11:12:11","date_gmt":"2005-09-22T16:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2005\/09\/22\/philip-greenspun-on-arc\/"},"modified":"2005-09-22T11:12:11","modified_gmt":"2005-09-22T16:12:11","slug":"philip-greenspun-on-arc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2005\/09\/22\/philip-greenspun-on-arc\/","title":{"rendered":"Philip Greenspun on Arc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a537'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n If you&#8217;ve not heard of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulgraham.com\/arc.html\">Arc<\/a><br \/>\n from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulgraham.com\/\">Paul Graham<\/a> you probably don&#8217;t<br \/>\n follow programming language wanking that much.   Philip Greenspun decided<br \/>\n to offer his thoughts on Arc:\n <\/p>\n<p>\n <em><br \/>\n No hopes for Arc, though Paul is a nice guy, unless someone writes a ground-breaking must-have open-source application in Arc that others want to modify. Lisp is more tasteful than C or Java but not that dramatic a help unless the programmer is very smart and tasteful him or herself. The average programmer seems to be getting progressively less devoted to taste and quality and therefore I would think that Lisp will continue to dwell in obscurity as things like PHP ascend to popularity.<br \/>\n <\/em>\n <\/p>\n<p>\n To me<br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulgraham.com\/arc.html\">Arc<\/a> sounds like an interesting<br \/>\n idea but if you take 100 years to design<br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulgraham.com\/hundred.html\">the 100-year language<\/a><br \/>\n you&#8217;ll have to re-advertise again since all the people who first heard of<br \/>\n such a great idea will probably be in their graves.  But if you have it<br \/>\n made <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulgraham.com\/avg.html\">financially<\/a> what&#8217;s the<br \/>\n rush?  Unless you&#8217;re trying to become ultra-famous&#8230;\n <\/p>\n<p>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/philg\/2005\/09\/06#a10593\">Link to Phil Greenspun&#8217;s comments on Arc<\/a>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve not heard of Arc from Paul Graham you probably don&#8217;t follow programming language wanking that much. Philip Greenspun decided to offer his thoughts on Arc: No hopes for Arc, though Paul is a nice guy, unless someone writes a ground-breaking must-have open-source application in Arc that others want to modify. Lisp is more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":704,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}