<i>"... One view says Arc is merely an extension to Lisp - an extendable language - so its not really new at all. ..."</i><p>And misses the point where Arcs design start point, is where McCarthy left off. [0] Nice mention of Nostro's javascript port ~<p>[0] <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/core.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.paulgraham.com/core.html</a><p>[1] <a href="http://arclanguage.org/item?id=1629" rel="nofollow">http://arclanguage.org/item?id=1629</a>