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bs9u | 13 days ago
That choice absolutely makes sense, once you recall that Brendan Eich was initially hired to write a Scheme! Business and Netscape being what they are, it ended up with Javascript, but there are some lispy roots.
bs9u | 13 days ago
That choice absolutely makes sense, once you recall that Brendan Eich was initially hired to write a Scheme! Business and Netscape being what they are, it ended up with Javascript, but there are some lispy roots.
cdegroot|12 days ago
But yes, JS' dynamic/LISP-y roots did make my examples simple to implement and thus simple to follow. No trickery was needed, it was all pretty straightforward.
(JS is a much maligned language and for very good reasons, it had a shaky past and still is too full of warts that should be excised at some point. But modern JS with the help of modern IDEs isn't actually _that_ terrible and traits like it being prototype-based make some otherwise complicated things easy)