John Sullivan was pleasantly surprised to receive an email congratulating him on becoming the 10th programmer in the world who can code in Arc. “I had just started exploring this since I heard that it is like Lisp. Also, I had heard that the legendary Paul Graham had created it so I was curious to know how it works” he told a SVChronicle reporter.

Meanwhile, the Arc language community was all shocked by the development. “We had given up a couple of years back when the total programmers were around 7” read a post on the forum.