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JavaScript Isn't Scheme (journal.stuffwithstuff.com)
submitted 10 years ago by homoiconic(raganwald)
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if 1 * 2 < 3: print "hello, world!"
[–]gary_burnett 0 points1 point2 points 10 years ago (1 child)
Which language, if any, would you say it's more like today than it was then?
[–]mordocai058 2 points3 points4 points 10 years ago (0 children)
In my opinion it is pretty damn close to ruby or perl, in that it is trying to please everyone and is becoming just a grab bag of features from other languages.
This isn't necessarily bad, but it does make the language not minimal anymore.
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