Imagine the timeline where Tcl, Scheme, xlisp, or any of the dozen other existing, mature, available, non-turrible programming languages was chosen for DHTML.

Imagine the timeline where Tcl, Scheme, xlisp, or any of the dozen other existing, mature, available, non-turrible programming languages was chosen for DHTML. Versus the poorly conceived, poorly implemented, from scratch rush job based on a fundamental misunderstanding of Self. In fact, we could have ended up with Self. Imagine that timeline. Worst is better.