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mahmud
on Jan 25, 2016
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Herbie: Automatically rewrites expressions to mini...
The language that this site is written in.
TazeTSchnitzel
on Jan 25, 2016
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Huh? Isn't HN written in Arc?
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Right, meant to say "the platform that powers this site".
Arc itself is an interpreter written in Racket. The site runs on racket.
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The Arc compiler converts Arc expressions into Scheme (in the mzscheme dialect) as implemented by Racket.
lifthrasiir
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LISP people likes to refer a language modification to a "language", partly because its lexical structure is so simple and its metaprogramming makes such modification easy. But yeah, Racket and Arc are only similar in the surface syntax.
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