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lisper

> I can only imagine where we'd be now if DSSSL had won over CSS

Or if Brendan Eich had prevailed when he wanted to embed Scheme in Netscape instead of Javascript.

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It is called The Little JavaScripter

https://www.crockford.com/little.html

Javascript is pretty much scheme or lisp.

He embedded Scheme in JavaScript instead but nobody noticed. As Lou Reed once said, “JavaScript is Lisp in drag”.

Except it isn't. JS has lexical closures, but that's not the only feature that makes Scheme what it is. JS got one thing right and about a dozen other things very badly wrong.

https://blog.kevinchisholm.com/javascript/javascript-wat/

Just to be clear, the Lou Reed quote was fake.

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