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Brendan Eich advanced a Scheme-like scripting language for Netscape, which got a facelift from Java’s popularity.
“Scheme was the bait I went for in joining Netscape. Previously, at SGI, Nick Thompson had turned me on to SICP.”
“The diktat from upper engineering management was that the language must “look like Java”.“
“I’m happy that I chose Scheme-ish first-class functions”
JS actually made a few functional concepts mainstream, such as first-class and anonymous functions, and callback patterns.
Source: https://brendaneich.com/page/5/
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Brendan Eich advanced a Scheme-like scripting language for Netscape, which got a facelift from Java’s popularity.
“Scheme was the bait I went for in joining Netscape. Previously, at SGI, Nick Thompson had turned me on to SICP.”
“The diktat from upper engineering management was that the language must “look like Java”.“
“I’m happy that I chose Scheme-ish first-class functions”
JS actually made a few functional concepts mainstream, such as first-class and anonymous functions, and callback patterns.
Source: https://brendaneich.com/page/5/