I think many people mistakenly thought Arc was supposed to be some new kind of framework like Ruby on Rails. I'll bet few of them read the stuff over at http://paulgraham.com/arc.html ahead of time.
I wonder how many people just jumped to the download announcement compared to the number who read the Arc essays.
> I think many people mistakenly thought Arc was supposed to be some new kind of framework like Ruby on Rails.
- Didn't you hear? Arc, the language, uses tables in its HTML!
(My god, I would never use a programming language that was ever used to generate tables!)
- The zeroth release of Arc only supports ASCII! What about us EBCDIC users?!
- Arc didn't cure my unsightly dandruff, like I hoped and prayed it would!
- Arc is out and Jesus didn't come back!
- I downloaded Arc and the tarball just sat there in the directory, doing nothing!
- Arc doesn't completely integrate itself with its temporary host language!
- Arc killed my entire village, just as we were about to start our annual Unicode Festival!
- Arc is just a bunch of library functions and syntactic transformations on a parse tree that ultimately compiles to machine code. There is NOTHING new here!
I don't know what you're talking about. I downloaded Arc and it immediately became sentient on my machine. It started writing it's own macros and evolving while I slept, and I'm pretty sure we all woke up this morning inside the Matrix.
I wonder how many people just jumped to the download announcement compared to the number who read the Arc essays.