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A comment on Diagram and History of Programming Languages (2006).

Re:Diagram and History of Programming Languages (2006) by Rotten194 on Monday March 18, 2019 @05:55PM (#19425729)
Javascript should really also be connected to Scheme. Sure, the "JS = Scheme" meme is not true, but Eich was certainly inspired by Scheme.
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Re:Diagram and History of Programming Languages (2006) by ylesaout on Monday March 18, 2019 @06:27PM (#19425990)
For sure! Without Scheme influence they probably won't have been closures in JS.
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