I can agree that you want a brief and plastic language for exploratory programming. I wonder, though, what happens when it's time for the garage project to move to the data center. I'm guessing that one would have to migrate code out of Arc into a language with more features. So I wonder which is faster...

  1. Write quickly in Arc, rewrite in a better language later.
  2. Write more slowly in a better language to begin with.

That's if I accept the premise that exploration in Arc would be faster than exploration elsewhere. I tend to think that any benefits in Arc could be put into (or found in) something on CPAN, and I wouldn't need to learn another language.

It may be that the exploration, done quickly in Arc, would take too long in a mature language. In that case, I think the programmer still has to be mindful of when the project has reached Arc's limits and needs to move on.

In reply to Re^3: Take the Arc Challenge by kyle
in thread Take the Arc Challenge by kyle

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