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		wruza on Dec 21, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fast >JavaScript. Brendan Eich implemented the first prototype for JavaScript in 10 days, in May 1995. >Unix. Ken Thompson wrote the first version in three weeks. 11 extra days completely worth investing.

bjoli on Dec 21, 2019 [–]

Poor Brendan. Wanting to write Scheme for the browser and ending up writing JavaScript. Sure, today JS is a proper language, but it atillmlacks the elegance and adherence to principle of scheme. Maybe that's why it's so successful :)

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