I read somewhere that Javascript was originally implemented in Lisp. Wouldn't it be so much better if they stuck with Lisp as the basis for extending Firefox (

I read somewhere that Javascript was originally implemented in Lisp. Wouldn't it be so much better if they stuck with Lisp as the basis for extending Firefox (Netscape at the time)? Maybe in that alternate history it would have seemed obvious to use Lisp as a common data format instead of XML, it being the clearest and cleanest syntax for complex nested data/s-expressions. Easy to read and better than XML as a common format. As is, Javascript eventually matured into a pretty damn good language (though not as good as Common Lisp, not even as good as Emacs Lisp), but XML is pretty lousy.