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Re:Understanding the Power of Lisp (2020) by mtrower on Thursday January 13, 2022 @07:04AM (#29919801)
> If Lisp had been used instead of JavaScript, it might have been equally popular today. I personally would have preferred that actually.

And how close we came... and yet so far =(

https://brendaneich.com/2008/04/popularity/

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Re:Understanding the Power of Lisp (2020) by mbrodersen on Friday January 14, 2022 @12:00AM (#29930747)
Yeah it would have been really interesting to have scheme in the position where JS is today.
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