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ajuc on May 5, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why I am excited about Clojure

> If you remove macros and s-expressions from a simple lisp.. what remains?

java script :)

nabla9 on May 5, 2014 [–]

Brendan Eich was hired to Netscape to "put Scheme in the browser", he ended up with Javascript.

see also: https://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/js2/semantics/

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