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>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.



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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