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JavaScript was inspired by Scheme and Self. It’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing in that way. But yes, a Scheme would have solved so many issues and churn that we ha
by dgb23 4y ago
JavaScript was inspired by Scheme and Self. It’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing in that way. But yes, a Scheme would have solved so many issues and churn that we have to deal with. However people are scared by Lisps so there’s that.
- aneil 4y agoSpecifically, some manager at Mozilla was scared of it.
- native_samples 4y agoEr, why? Most of the churn isn't to do with JS as a language.
- uvtc 4y agoI think it's partly due to: people like regular garden-variety arrays and hashmaps, and don't want to use car, cdr, cons. I like my array and hashmap literals.