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Like that discussion a while back about early competitors to CSS like DSSSL. Imagine if, instead of CSS/Javascript, we'd just had Scheme. In fact, imagine if in
by peatmoss 9y ago
Like that discussion a while back about early competitors to CSS like DSSSL. Imagine if, instead of CSS/Javascript, we'd just had Scheme. In fact, imagine if instead of HTML/CSS/Javascript... we just had Scheme.
- TeMPOraL 9y agoThis particular example breaks my heart, because AFAIK[0] JavaScript was supposed to be Scheme at least two times during its development. -- [0] - read that in the interviews in "Coders at Work".
- peatmoss 9y agoScheme: ever the bridesmaid never the bride?
- krapp 9y agoOther than the source code looking nice to people who prefer to see s-expressions everywhere, how would that have improved the web? Particularly at the beginning, when the web was intended to be nothing but markup and hyperlinks for otherwise plain text documents?