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This site is about Arc, a new dialect of Lisp.

[...]it doesn't support any character sets except ascii.

Arc, un nouveau dialecte de Lisp, pour nous, les américains.

Every thing you own takes energy away from you. Some give more than they take.

Mathematicians call good work "beautiful," and so, either now or in the past, have scientists, engineers, musicians, architects, designers, writers, and painters. Is it just a coincidence that they used the same word, or is there some overlap in what they meant? If there is an overlap, can we use one field's discoveries about beauty to help us in another?

> Originally, yes, it was meaningless. Now it seems to have acquired a meaning. And yet those who dislike the term are probably right, because if it means what I think it does, we don't need it.

"All the best hackers I know are gradually switching to Macs"