There are features, most notably Prolog-style pattern-matching, that seem to promise great savings in length, but turn out only to be useful for writing a few basic sequence operations like append, remove, and so on. Prolog is a great language for writing append; after that it's all downhill1.
As long as Paul Graham is looking down the power continuum, he knows he's looking down. Languages less powerful than Arc are obviously less powerful, because they're missing some feature he's used to. But when Paul Graham looks in the other direction, up the power continuum, he doesn't realize he's looking up. What he sees are merely weird languages. He probably considers them about equivalent in power to Arc, but with all this other hairy stuff thrown in as well. Arc is good enough for him, because he thinks in Arc2.
HI, I'M PAUL GRAHAM, FOUNDER AND CEO OF Y COMBINATOR. I HAVE MADE MANY INSIGHTFUL STATEMENTS IN MY ESSAY ENTITLED "YOUR MOTHER AND THE 48 VERY SMART PEOPLE" AND WOULD LIKE TO THANK TREVOR BLACKWELL, ROBERT MORRIS AND JESSICA LIVINGSTON FOR HAVING READ DRAFTS OF THIS ESSAY, WHICH YOU WILL BE ABLE TO FIND WITH 21 OTHERS ESSAYS IN MY UPCOMING BOOK "HACKERS AND YOUR SISTER". I GUARANTEE IT.
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Anonymous2008-02-04 16:10
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Anonymous2008-02-04 16:10
I read the title of the thread as ``Alice and Bob''. Oh you.
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Anonymous2008-02-04 16:12
I like Guts because he is a berserker like me, except he had friends that got devoured by demons. Oh god I wish demons devoured my friends too ;_;
Guts also likes killing and he is manly. And there is violence in the show and that's good because I like violence and I will never have a girlfriend. Why am I such a loser?!
Guts is like my dreamman he has a >:D face I love that. He is also berserk why aren't real men berserk!? I got dumped a lot of times but I love Guts and he wouldn't dump me because he's so nice and cool.
We would slay people all day and slay makers of Naruto and makers of other crappy animes, and I would have sex with him because sex is so good. I wish I could have sex with a manly man.