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kenferry on March 18, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: John Carmack: “I just dumped the C++ server I wrot...

Hacker News is (was?) written in Arc, no?

fjarlq on March 18, 2015 | [–]

Correct, HN is written in Arc, a dialect of Lisp.

But, the Arc compiler is written in Racket[1], and internally outputs Racket code[2]. "mzscheme"[3] is an early version of PLT Scheme, aka Racket.

[1] https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/blob/master/ac.scm

[2] http://arclanguage.org/item?id=14608

[3] http://docs.racket-lang.org/mzscheme/

jeorgun on March 18, 2015 | [–]

IIRC the Arc interpreter is itself written in Racket.

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