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Re:Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995) by krapp on Friday December 04, 2020 @02:16PM (#25306446)
>All three HTML, JS, and CSS could have used one Lisp-like dialect.

Other than being aesthetically pleasing to a demographic of programmers, what would be the benefit? Modern sites already have a problem with JS being used to generate CSS and HTML, and separation of concerns being completely abandoned, and that's just created a mess where three separate, more explicit languages were simpler.

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