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If you've programmed in Arc, you've probably noticed that the error messages are often cryptic at best. Error handling is a major ...

Since I've been hearing good things about the F# language from various people, I wanted to give it a try, but I wasn't interested in...

I was recently reading The Little Schemer , a very intersting book about how to think in Scheme. The book uses a unique question-response ...

When using the Arc REPL, I've often wanted to edit a previous line. Python lets you access and edit lines using the arrow keys, so why ...

I came across a thread on reddit about why you shouldn't write your own encryption algorithm . In it, one person presented a homegrown...

The total world's population of Haskell programmers fits in a 747. And if that goes down, nobody would even notice. -- Erik Meijer I ...

Can Arc be used to create a Tetris-like game? In my previous posting on using OpenGL with Arc , I described how the effort to set up OpenGL...

I saw a posting on news.ycombinator entitled " Take the Tetris test (an Arc version, anyone?) ", which suggested writing a simple...

Recently, I've been reading Programming Collective Intelligence , which is a practical guide to machine learning algorithms, showing how...

The code that implements Arc illustrates many useful programming techniques. Some of the techniques occur multiple times, and can be consid...

The introduction of the Arc language has spawned a mini-boom of Arc compilers and interpreters implemented in everything from JavaScript to ...

Ajax is surprisingly easy to use with the Arc language. This article shows how to implement Ajax-based autocompletion and dynamic page upda...