Re:Lisp Machine Manual (1984)
by zeveb on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @05:50PM
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> it's possible that if he had implemented it like he wanted to, it wouldn't have received such wide spread adoption like javascript did.
I don't care for Scheme, but I'd be very, very surprised if it'd have failed in such a situation. If a terrible train wreck of a language like JavaScript can succeed, pretty much anything better than INTERCAL can. People wanted to extend browsers; had Scheme been the only way to do that, Scheme is what they'd have used.
I don't care for Scheme, but I'd be very, very surprised if it'd have failed in such a situation. If a terrible train wreck of a language like JavaScript can succeed, pretty much anything better than INTERCAL can. People wanted to extend browsers; had Scheme been the only way to do that, Scheme is what they'd have used.