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== History==

In 2001, [[Paul Graham (computer programmer)|Paul Graham]] announced that he was working on a new [[dialect (computing)|dialect]] of [[Lisp (programming language)|Lisp]] named "[[Arc (programming language)|Arc]]". Over the years since, he has written several essays describing features or goals of the language, and some internal projects at Y Combinator have been written in Arc, most notably the [[Hacker News]] web forum and news aggregator program. Arc itself is written in [[Racket (programming language)|Racket]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://arclanguage.github.io/|title=Arc Programming Language}}</ref>

In the essay [http://www.paulgraham.com/popular.html Being Popular] Graham describes a few of his goals for the language. While many of the goals are very general ("Arc should be hackable," "there should be good [[Library (computing)|libraries]]"), he did give some specifics. For instance, he believes that it is important for a language to be terse:

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==Versions==

===Official version===

The first publicly released version of Arc was made available on 29 January 2008,<ref>[http://paulgraham.com/arc0.html Arc's Out (29 January 2008)]</ref> implemented on top of [[Racket (programming language)|Racket]] ("PLT-Scheme" at that time). The release comes in the form of a .tar archive, containing the Racket source code for Arc. A tutorial<ref>[http://ycombinator.com/arc/tut.txt tutorial]</ref> and a discussion forum<ref>[http://arclanguage.org/forum discussion forum]</ref> are also available.