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2 points by jb 3415 days ago | link | parent

Hmm, some interesting reads.

These docs (https://arclanguage.github.io/ref/) are the ones I was talking about. I haven't read much, but there's no mention of parentheses anywhere. Also, there are symbols in circles to the left of concepts, e.g. F ! ? M, but no explanation of what they mean.

Generally, the docs seem rather terse to me; there's a lot of stuff that only makes sense now, after reading (http://aphyr.com/posts/301). "Clojure from the ground up" does start slowly, but by the end of Chapter 4, I really understood the idea of recursion and representing code as a tree, something that I don't think I could have got from the Arc docs.



1 point by akkartik 3415 days ago | link

That's fair. I think we worked on the reference because the tutorial seemed pretty good. Do you think we need something in between?

Edit: I thought the tutorial had come up in this thread, but it hasn't. I'm not used to having two questions from newcomers at once :) Are you aware of http://old.ycombinator.com/arc/tut.txt?

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2 points by jb 3412 days ago | link

Ahh, I got a server error when I first tried to look at that; it seems to be working now, though. I've read the tutorial - it does seem pretty good. Thanks for the link :)

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1 point by akkartik 3412 days ago | link

Yeah, sorry about that. I think the HN guys made some changes and broke us for like a day.

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