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Re:JavaScript developers are incredible at problem solving, ... by TeMPOraL on Thursday July 09, 2015 @07:06PM (#9861299)
Funny thing: JavaScript was actually supposed to be Scheme, not once but twice, and both times it was scrubbed because Netscape was in fierce competition with Microsoft.
Re:JavaScript developers are incredible at problem solving, ... by vezzy-fnord on Thursday July 09, 2015 @07:10PM (#9861317)
One must wonder whether Netscape greenlighting the addition of a Scheme dialect simply would have caused Microsoft or another party to implement some flavor of ALGOL or BASIC in return and leave the hypothetical SchemeScript going the way of the dodo, much like Netscape's JavaScript Style Sheets that almost no one remembers today.