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There are some people who prefer JavaScript to scheme. More importantly, many more people have been exposed to JavaScript than have been exposed to scheme.
by boucher 17y ago
There are some people who prefer JavaScript to scheme. More importantly, many more people have been exposed to JavaScript than have been exposed to scheme.
- tumult 17y agoTotally. And I hope to expose these people to Scheme :) That way, when your actual job calls for working on stuff in JavaScript (like me!), you have another perspective in your toolkit.
- swannodette 17y agoThose who know anything about JavaScript know that JavaScript WAS Scheme (plus Self). And then Brendan Eich was forced to adopt C style syntax because of the impending popularity of Java.