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Re:Racketscript by bmitc on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @04:08AM (#33418296)
I've never understood how someone who supposedly liked, wanted, and had experience with Scheme ended up creating JavaScript, even being rushed to do so. This isn't a personal judgement. It's just that I don't understand it.
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Re:Racketscript by wiseowise on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @04:24AM (#33418403)
Suits wanted Java because nirmies.
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Re:Racketscript by pjmlp on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @05:43AM (#33418934)
Because customer said so.
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Re:Racketscript by speed_spread on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @07:54AM (#33419991)
Maybe 'that person' was against homoiconic marriage too.
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Re:Racketscript by kazinator on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @01:13AM (#33431662)
Here is what I don't understand:

How someone who supposedly liked, wanted and had experience with Scheme ended up creating a language with a function-scoped var binding construct, which then took twenty more years to finally get a block-scoped let.

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