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1 point by mcoles 6099 days ago | link | parent | on: Arc: Table of Contents

I love the stuff on arcfn. Thanks Ken.

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2 points by mcoles 6105 days ago | link | parent | on: Arc challenge: 8 Queens Problem

Does anyone know why that optimised heuristic/algorithm actually works? i.e. n mod 12 and all that

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As much as everyone wants freedom (as in speech not beer) it's not so much fun when your working code is on the line. Even in a 3-week old experimental programming language. Funny that.

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2 points by mcoles 6132 days ago | link | parent | on: Suggestion for [... _ ...]

It's totally possible that I'm missing the point, but how is _ 0 and _ 1 and better than x and y? Sure this gives you an implicit parameter list, but when you go beyond short functions like add2, wouldn't it be nice to have names for variables? My understanding of [ _ ] was for all those quick, inline anonymous functions, not for function definition of non-trivial functions.

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1 point by mcoles 6133 days ago | link | parent | on: First Priority: Core Language

As a casual hobbyist who's trying to learn lisp(cl/scheme), coming from a ruby mindframe, arc actually feels like it may be a net win, while the jury is out on the other two.

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1 point by bOR_ 6133 days ago | link

same, although I only tried cl (about 6 months ago).

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