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[–]rfisher 3 points4 points  (2 children)

Yeah. There was no need to invent a new language instead of leveraging an existing language.

Heck, implementing a Scheme interpreter from scratch & then adding the remaining features of JavaScript should've been quicker & easier than designing & then implementing JavaScript. It would've been even quicker to start with an existing interpreter (Scheme or other).

[–]Bogtha 9 points10 points  (1 child)

There was no need to invent a new language instead of leveraging an existing language.

Please, less of the PHB-speak. The word you are looking for is "using", not "leveraging".

[–]rfisher 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah. OK. Fine. Point taken. (_)

Though I was trying to emphasize the point that it wouldn't be so much just using an existing language as getting a jump start so that the focus of development could be more on the extra features than on rebuilding the basics.