> JavaScript is literally a Scheme “implementation”, as in it started as Scheme in a browser but they removed the s-exprs (the interface) and kept the implement

> JavaScript is literally a Scheme “implementation”, as in it started as Scheme in a browser but they removed the s-exprs (the interface) and kept the implementation. do you have any link to a source for this claim? AFAIK JavaScript started as a language called Mocha, which was hacked together in a few days: Java syntax, Scheme functions + Self object system + plus a bunch of other things. At that time: no symbols, no s-expressions, no cons cells, no lists, no macros, no tail call optimization, ...