John Carmack working on Scheme as a VR scripting language

Re:John Carmack working on Scheme as a VR scripting language by rprospero on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @09:06AM (#9811549)

Technically, it did have to compete with VBScript, back when IE had browser dominance and VBScript support.

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Re:John Carmack working on Scheme as a VR scripting language by toyg on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @09:16AM (#9811584)

But Netscape never had support for vbscript, so until they died Javascript/JScript was the only choice. By the time IE reached dominance, the industry had already standardized on JS.

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