[krapp]

well, to be fair, if this is any indication of how deeply integrated markup, data and code are in an Arc application, making any kind of changes to the rendered document would be potentially horribly painful: https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/master/html.arc

(sorry... I'm sure people think this is awesome because zomg Lisp but in any other language it would be derided as "spaghetti code")

[unclebucknasty]

That's pretty bad.

So, what we're saying is these guys are merely using the open source Arc webapp that HN is using and changing a few styles?

If so, that's actually not dishonorable and more like just starting a niche community with forum software.

And, I have been educated.

[bennyg]

Wow, Lisp is pretty gross. There just doesn't look like a whole lot of order there, and it looks pretty annoying to write.

[krapp]

I do wonder if there's such a thing as a web framework in a Lisp, Arc or what have you, with templating and a url router and all that. Or if that's even possible. Or if the Lisp community would recoil in horror at the very thought.

I mean I know (as far as I know) this was pg's pet project and it's taken off like nothing i've written ever has, but I can't see it selling a blub like me on the language. Nothing makes me want to touch a Lisp less than seeing it.