>Lisp is older, sure, but maybe there were concerns about the syntax and interpreter requirements As I understand it, Brendan Eich originally spent a lot of ef

>Lisp is older, sure, but maybe there were concerns about the syntax and interpreter requirements As I understand it, Brendan Eich originally spent a lot of effort on a Scheme implementation to serve the browser-scripting role for Netscape/Mozilla, but couldn't get it done in time and hacked up Javascript in a hurry to prevent an even worse alternative from becoming the de facto standard.