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> They wouldn't have had a choice, though, just as folks don't have a choice with JavaScript. If people disliked the syntax enough to avoid the language (and t
by khedoros1 10y ago
> They wouldn't have had a choice, though, just as folks don't have a choice with JavaScript.
If people disliked the syntax enough to avoid the language (and the browser that uses it), I imagine that other browsers would've started supporting other languages, and something else would've dominated.
- int_19h 10y agoBrowsers actually did support other languages back then. Remember VBScript? IIRC there was also an attempt to draft Tcl into that role. In IE world, things were actually even crazier, because the whole scripting story was extensible (via Active Scripting). So you could use Perl, for example...