From: tho_mica_l <micathom@...>
Date: 2008-01-30T17:05:00+09:00
Subject: Re: neat idea from arc

> Well ... not sure about this relative to Ruby, but I must admit I'm a
> bit disappointed in Arc itself. Sure, it's a "dialect of Lisp", but does
> it differ *enough* from Scheme or Common Lisp in any *practical* way?

It seems rather like a Scheme pre-compiler to handle some syntaxtic
sugar (e.g. for function composition etc.) that couldn't be done with
macros alone. Strange ... after all these years.