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Chris Wellons said...
I think the kind of exploratory programming these people are talking about with Arc is not exploring the same types of subjects as the book you mention. The book is looking at applications. Arc seems to be about exploring programming languages themselves, as it is a very re-programmable programming language.
Python, along with most non-lisps, doesn't have the powerful lisp macros to do this re-programming. Just as Arc lacks libraries so it can't do the exploratory programming that Python can, Python is poorly suited for the programming language exploratory programming that Arc provides.
Nov 1, 2008, 10:20:00 PM