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   Axel Rauschmayer (rauschma@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 07:37:29 JST Axel Rauschmayer

   29 years ago today (1995-12-04): “Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript, the open, cross-platform object scripting language for enterprise networks and the internet”
   https://web.archive.org/web/20070916144913/http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/pr/newsrelease67.html

   #JavaScript

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     dave (dthompson@toot.cat)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 07:38:51 JST dave

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     • Mark T. Tomczak

     @mark @rauschma https://spritely.institute/hoot/

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     Mark T. Tomczak (mark@mastodon.fixermark.com)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 07:39:00 JST Mark T. Tomczak

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     @rauschma Small-brain energy: "They should have stuck with the original Scheme-inspired design; that'd have been much better."

     Big-brain energy: "They were smart to go with a language design that mirrored what people were familiar with. Yes, it had design flaws that we probably shouldn't have tolerated in what would become the assembly-language of the web, but there was no guarantee at the time it would hit the way it did and it's better we have something than nothing."

     Galaxy-brain energy: "So that's why I'm announcing SchemeScript, my Scheme-inspired compiles-to-Javascript language with compile-time or run-time options for..." 😉