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Re:V8 release v6.6 by lambda on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @10:31AM (#16688744)
Event driven programming has been the norm for GUI systems as long as they have existed. I think that the heritage came from Simula in the 1960s, which influenced SmallTalk in the 1970s, which was a major influence for most object-oriented languages and GUI systems since then.

Erlang and JavaScript come much much later on in the evolution of programming languages; Erlang originated in the late 1980s, and JavaScript in 1995.

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Re:V8 release v6.6 by gigatexal on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @10:50AM (#16688962)
That makes sense. I’ve bren dabbling in GUI apps with C# and I see some of that though I don’t quite understand it all yet.
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