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1 point by sarosh 5954 days ago | link | parent | on: Any way to write standalone scripts?

Has anyone thought about using Platypus (on OS X)?

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1 point by sarosh 5955 days ago | link | parent | on: Why Arc? Why MzScheme?

Not sure if this is the proper thread for you to address this, but I'm curious as to whether you think there would be in value to something like Arc -> C/Java/? for libraries/frameworks/speed

(which would (theoretically) be just a kludge/hack on Bigloo http://www-sop.inria.fr/mimosa/fp/Bigloo/)

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4 points by Zak 5955 days ago | link

RTFAQ: http://paulgraham.com/arcfaq.html

Arc is intended to not be attached to any other language or VM. That's not to say you couldn't implement your own Arc runtime on top of a language of your choice. In fact, since there are already Schemes that run on top of both C and Java, you could do so simply by porting the Scheme parts to an appropriate Scheme. It's under 1000 lines of Scheme.

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2 points by sarosh 5954 days ago | link

Thanks for the heads up (didn't know about the FAQ). The porting of the relevant Scheme option seems interesting; I'll have to check it out

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1 point by sarosh 5956 days ago | link | parent | on: Arc Documentation (arc0)

Step 4: download DrSchme 352 http://download.plt-scheme.org/drscheme/v352.html

With the hope that it works as a quick IDE

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1 point by sarosh 5956 days ago | link

Step 4.1 - This appears to work To activate, when Dr Scheme loads up, select Language > PLT > Graphical Then open as.scm (yes, there are two files, but the one you want is the one with that is 4KB)

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1 point by sarosh 5956 days ago | link | parent | on: Arc Documentation (arc0)

Step 3: install MzScheme 352 (and realize that none of the environmental variables are set and that the first todo will be to set up a single package install that does both)

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1 point by sarosh 5956 days ago | link | parent | on: Arc Documentation (arc0)

Step 2: grab http://ycombinator.com/arc/arc0.tar

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1 point by sarosh 5956 days ago | link | parent | on: Arc Documentation (arc0)

OS: OS X 10.5.1 (G4)

Step 1: Grab MzScheme 352 http://download.plt-scheme.org/mzscheme/v352.html

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