thedaviduriell
2020-5-14 15:46:01

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spdegabrielle
2020-5-14 20:40:36

Omg Racket is 4 months older than JavaScript


samth
2020-5-14 20:41:14

There were lots of new languages sprouting up then


massung
2020-5-14 20:49:10

JavaScript as we know it? or JavaScript as the 3-line MSFT hack for browsers?


samth
2020-5-14 20:51:02

@massung JS as in Brendan Eich’s original Netscape implementation


massung
2020-5-14 20:58:44

right Netscape.. completely forgot about that one :slightly_smiling_face:


soegaard2
2020-5-14 21:08:39

It was a step up from Mosaic :slightly_smiling_face:


spdegabrielle
2020-5-14 22:03:58

> There were lots of new languages sprouting up then

I wonder how many are still around ?


samth
2020-5-15 02:08:26

Many of the languages that are now popular date from the early 90s: Ruby, Python, Java, JS, Lua