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		actionfromafar on March 11, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: (How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (In Python)) (2... Not sure, but Brendan Eich originally wanted to just put Scheme in the Netscape browser but his bosses wanted something with a Java like syntax. (I looked at Wikipedia for reference and it matches my memory of older sources.)

patrickmay on March 11, 2024 [–]

Every time I'm reminded of that I get annoyed thinking of how much better the web could have been.

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