Sorry, I was joking. I've seen the "arc we there yet?" question asked so many times I feel the need to tease. I made sure to reply here quickly though :-)
Just to clarify, I didn't ask for a downloadable. I just wanted a sense of whether arc was converging or not and how the language evolved and what was learned. e.g: the decision to have constants in function call position return themselves. I would really love to know how that came about (though it maybe burdening Paul too much to ask him to write down how he came to that design decision :-) )
I find language design fascinating. One of my favorite books is Stroustroups' "The design of the C++ language". It is not often one can ask question while the language design/evolution is going on.
The question wasn't intended to be "Is Arc ready?" but rather "what is your sense of where the language is going?" .
Nice. I reckon Markdown-style [links](http://link.com/) would be at least as useful, though. (I notice the paren is still included in the href -- I often would like to parenthesize links but then remind myself it doesn't work in News.YC.)
Just curious as to why this comments thread (32768) isn't the same as the main link (32766).
The main link was to a comment on an old thread. If he'd made the top level of this thread the actual comment it linked to (assuming that makes sense in news.yc), it would take up a whole lot of space on the front page...
