Re:What is a programmable programming language? (2019)
by lispm on Monday June 06, 2022 @04:32AM
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> JavaScript is literally a Scheme “implementation”, as in it started as Scheme in a browser but they removed the s-exprs (the interface) and kept the implementation.
do you have any link to a source for this claim?
AFAIK JavaScript started as a language called Mocha, which was hacked together in a few days: Java syntax, Scheme functions + Self object system + plus a bunch of other things.
At that time: no symbols, no s-expressions, no cons cells, no lists, no macros, no tail call optimization, ...
do you have any link to a source for this claim?
AFAIK JavaScript started as a language called Mocha, which was hacked together in a few days: Java syntax, Scheme functions + Self object system + plus a bunch of other things.
At that time: no symbols, no s-expressions, no cons cells, no lists, no macros, no tail call optimization, ...