Re:JavaScript: what is "this"?
by olavk on Sunday March 21, 2010 @02:29PM
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JavaScript definitely isn't Scheme (just as it definitely isn't Java either), but it is correct that it was conceived as a somewhat Scheme-like language with an OO-model inspired by Self, but for marketing reasons it was given a superficially Java-like syntax (and name!).
It is interesting to imagine what could have happened if Netscape had shipped with a Lisp. Probably a lot more people would hate Lisp today!
It is interesting to imagine what could have happened if Netscape had shipped with a Lisp. Probably a lot more people would hate Lisp today!