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I lament the day in 1994 when #Netscape executives ordered #BrendanEich to dump #Scheme and design a new, Java-like scripting language that became "The Abominable #JavaScript".
Had Scheme been allowed to drive the browser as Eich originally intended, a cousin of #Emacs would be running the #Web today.
Well into the late 1990s, I used Emacs as my IDE, calendar, organiser, mail client, and web browser. Fun times....
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