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I've never understood how someone who supposedly liked, wanted, and had experience with Scheme ended up creating JavaScript, even being rushed to do so. This is
by bmitc 4y ago
I've never understood how someone who supposedly liked, wanted, and had experience with Scheme ended up creating JavaScript, even being rushed to do so. This isn't a personal judgement. It's just that I don't understand it.
- wiseowise 4y agoSuits wanted Java because nirmies.
- pjmlp 4y agoBecause customer said so.
- speed_spread 4y agoMaybe 'that person' was against homoiconic marriage too.
- kazinator 4y agoHere is what I don't understand: How someone who supposedly liked, wanted and had experience with Scheme ended up creating a language with a function-scoped var binding construct, which then took twenty more years to finally get a block-scoped let.