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“As a final way of kindling your jealousy, DSSSL could treat inherited values as variables, and do math on them…” As per the article, this would have been a lo
by perardi 6y ago
“As a final way of kindling your jealousy, DSSSL could treat inherited values as variables, and do math on them…”
As per the article, this would have been a lot to implement back then, but sigh, what a wonderful world that wold have been.
- peatmoss 6y agoI keep wondering how I can Man-in-the-High-Castle my way back to the timeline where Scheme replaces HTML, Javascript, and CSS. Also where Al Gore wins the 2000 election.
- ignoranceprior 6y agoBrendan Eich originally wanted Netscape's scripting language to be a Scheme dialect, but suits forced him to use Java/C-like syntax instead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich#Netscape_and_JavaScript https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich#Netscape_and_Java...