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You may dislike my tone, but it is basically factual.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9098367

Eich> I joined Netscape on April 4, 1995, to "do Scheme in the browser". Immediately I was out of luck on several fronts:

Eich> [...]

Eich> If there was to be a "scripting language", it had to look like Java.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2786720

Eich> Remember, I was recruited to "do Scheme", which felt like bait and switch in light of the Java deal brewing by the time I joined Netscape.



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Cool. This explains why the better I understood Clojure, the more my Javascript started to look lispy.

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