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It's really hard to believe that implementing a Scheme or Lisp would be slower than implementing JavaScript, so I would indeed be interested in your cite. My r
by zeveb 10y ago
It's really hard to believe that implementing a Scheme or Lisp would be slower than implementing JavaScript, so I would indeed be interested in your cite.
My recollection is that Eich's bosses wanted something that looked like CJava++.
- throwanem 10y agoSee your sibling comment (if you haven't already).
- zeveb 10y agoHmmm, I guess my takeaway from that is that it had to look like C, and that iron constraint combined with the time pressure to mean that good features from Scheme were left out, not that implementing JavaScript rather than Scheme was due to time pressure.
- throwanem 10y agoYup. (And it would just figure that, the one time I describe something based on a half-decade-old recollection and don't throw in an "as I recall" qualifier, it'd be the time I misremember in a significantly erroneous way.)