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== History==

In 2001, Paul Graham announced that he was working on a new [[Dialect (computing)|dialect]] of Lisp named ''Arc''. Over the years since, he has written several essays describing features or goals of the language, and some internal projects at Graham's [[Startup company|startup]] [[business incubator]] named [[Y Combinator]] have been written in Arc, most notably the [[Hacker News]] web forum and news aggregator program. Arc is written in [[Racket (programming language)|Racket]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://arclanguage.org/install |title=Arc Forum: install |website=Arclanguage.org |access-date=2018-11-07}}</ref>

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=== Reception ===

When released in 2008, Arc generated mixed reactions, with some calling it simply an extension to Lisp or [[Scheme (programming language)|Scheme]] and not a programming language in its own right. Others applauded Arc for stripping Lisp down to bare essentials. Shortly after its release, Arc was ported to [[JavaScript]], and was being supported by ''Schemescript'', an [[integrated development environment]] (IDE) based on [[Eclipse (software)|Eclipse]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/07/lisp_arc_challenge/ |title=Web pioneer hits critics with Lisp gauntlet |website=The Register |date=2008-02-07 |place=[[United Kingdom|UK]]}}</ref>

== Examples ==