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Mzscheme vs PLT Scheme vs Racket
3 points by johndoe 5151 days ago | 4 comments
As you're all well aware Mzscheme has been deprecated for some time now and PLT Scheme is now replaced/known as Racket.

My question is simple, does the arclanguage and for example the news.arc forum application work under Racket or if one wants to play around with news.arc one must download old out of date Mzscheme?

Thanks for any info I've tried searching but no one seems to have asked this obvious question.

PS - yes I'm a newbie to arc and in fact I'm not even sure I want to get into it if it turns out I have to use old deprecated and potentially vulnerable scheme frameworks if the software and language are not even really actively supported anymore. If I'm incorrect in this analysis then I'm willing to jump on board.

Any info or insight would be appreciated.

Kind regards



3 points by zck 5150 days ago | link

Arc3.1 works with Racket. You can get Arc3.1 here: http://ycombinator.com/arc/arc3.1.tar . I don't know why the "install" page hasn't been updated.

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3 points by akkartik 5150 days ago | link

http://sites.google.com/site/arclanguagewiki is really the front page of the project at this point, for all intents and purposes.

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1 point by zck 5150 days ago | link

I should probably poke around there, then. For whatever reason, the only Arc documentation I've used is arcfn.com, which isn't up to date with Arc3.1 anyway.

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1 point by rocketnia 5150 days ago | link

Only documentation I've used too. ^_^ With Arc documentation as it is today, part of Arc programming is being prepared to read the source code to get the whole story. The Arcfn documentation is still a good place to get to know the essential utilities.

Anarki provides "help" functionality too, in case that, uh, helps.

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