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Re:The Little Javascripter by swannodette on Saturday September 26, 2009 @10:44PM (#846440)
Those who know anything about JavaScript know that JavaScript WAS Scheme (plus Self). And then Brendan Eich was forced to adopt C style syntax because of the impending popularity of Java.
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Re:The Little Javascripter by apgwoz on Sunday September 27, 2009 @11:09AM (#846902)
Yeah, but JavaScript IS not, by any stretch of the imagination anything like scheme today, aside from first class functions. It really pains me when people say JavaScript is scheme + self. That just isn't true.
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Re:The Little Javascripter by tumult on Saturday September 26, 2009 @11:08PM (#846465)
Pretty sure boucher is aware :)
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