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But I can't help but imagine how different the world would be if he had used Scheme as a starting point.

I've heard that he did in fact use Scheme, but the suits insisted on the whole curly-brackets-and-semicolons thing so they could call it Javascript and piggyback on Sun's marketing efforts.




To be fair, he only took some of the semi-colons.


He took an option on the semi-colons.




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