On: What Languages Fix

[Zak]

Arc: Common Lisp is a kludge, and Scheme has no libraries.

This seems to address the reasons the languages were created more than the reasons people continue to use them today. The former is insightful, but the latter might be more useful.

[rsheridan6 → Zak]

>...and Scheme has no libraries.

That's a strange reason to write a brand-new language that has even fewer libraries. If that's the problem with Scheme. I hope PG and JAR had better reasons than that.

[gms → rsheridan6]

jar is working on Arc?

[rsheridan6 → gms]

No, but jar was involved with T, which had the same reason according to pg.