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Re:The original Javascript impl was written in Lisp by tszming on Saturday November 26, 2011 @02:26AM (#3279328)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpiderMonkey_(JavaScript_engine...

>>> Eich "wrote JavaScript in ten days" in 1995,[1] having been "recruited to Netscape with the promise of “doing Scheme” in the browser".[2] (The idea of using Scheme itself was abandoned when "engineering management [decided] that the language must ‘look like Java’".[2]) In fall 1996, Eich, needing to "pay off [the] substantial technical debt" left from the first year, "stayed home for two weeks to rewrite Mocha as the codebase that became known as SpiderMonkey".[1]

Re:The original Javascript impl was written in Lisp by plam on Saturday November 26, 2011 @04:16AM (#3279486)
sigh... the developer wanted to use Lisp, then management opted for Java. Typical.