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A comment on Node.js v7.0.0. Parent comment

Re:Node.js v7.0.0 by kpil on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @03:08PM (#12790724)
[There are] standards-compliant ECMAScript runtimes everywhere and we all dream that it had been scheme instead.

Fixed that for you.

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Re:Node.js v7.0.0 by kemitchell on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @03:22PM (#12790851)
I'd be happier with a Scheme-ier JavaScript, and I'm not alone, but that's not everybody.
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Re:Node.js v7.0.0 by stiGGG on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @06:44PM (#12792427)
The other ones do not know what that means?
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Re:Node.js v7.0.0 by kpil on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @07:25PM (#12792677)
A [crappy] religion teacher once tried to convince me; Everyone longs for salvation - only some does it unconsciously, without knowing it.

Maybe he was right all along, but was actually talking about scheme.

(I can't just let go that it was soooo close that we would not had to suffer in the javascript wastelands.)

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