When will Paul Graham stop trolling?

The first publicly released version of Arc was made available on Tuesday, 29 January 2008^[10]. The release comes in the form of a .tar archive, containing the mzscheme source code for Arc. A tutorial and a discussion forum are also available. The forum is copied from news.ycombinator.com and is written itself in Arc.

The initial version has caused some controversy, notably by only supporting the ASCII character set, and by shipping with a built-in web application library that bases its layout on HTML tables. This, combined with the hype surrounding Arc and its generally slow development pace, has gathered some unfavorable comments.^[11]

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I'm not a huge fan of Arc, I prefer plain CL myself, and don't really have a need for heavily stripped down CL with an abbreviated syntax and a single namespace, however I do think P.G. is responsible for bringing many new people to Lisp, and that's a good thing.