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167 points fprog | 1 comments | 19 Apr 25 18:42 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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behnamoh ◴[19 Apr 25 20:15 UTC] No.43739140[source]▶
arXiv has one of my papers on hold for a long time because their team couldn't believe I—someone without a CS degree—was able to create a programming language from scratch on my own.
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immibis ◴[19 Apr 25 23:51 UTC] No.43740398[source]▶
1. Creating a programming language from scratch isn't hard.

2. It's also worthless.

3. arXiv is for scientific papers and not just random PDFs or project reports.

4. Creating a programming language can be science but something tells me that yours isn't.

I've seen solutions to the halting problem published on something called ResearchGate. I don't know anything about it but maybe you can upload there. Or just use your website or Google Drive, like how a normal person shares PDFs.

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behnamoh ◴[20 Apr 25 02:40 UTC] No.43741140[source]▶
You don't have all the context. The language serves a serious novel purpose. You seem to be bitter about someone uploading a research paper (I didn't say it was a white paper) to arXiv.
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1. danpalmer ◴[20 Apr 25 03:30 UTC] No.43741329[source]▶
You also didn’t share all the context. By all means criticise arXiv, but unless you provide enough context you have to expect to receive criticism back.

Personally I’d be fascinated to hear what your language was that warranted a paper submission to arXiv if you want to share.