[GoLUG] Scheme -- guile3, may all your parentheses be in the correct order

Hendrik Boom hendrik at topoi.pooq.com
Tue Aug 20 17:01:09 EDT 2024


On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 01:01:25PM -0400, Barry Fishman wrote:
> 
>  - JavaScript is just a primitive Scheme with it's syntax changed to
>    look like C.  It really shows how lisp syntax works out better
>    as an extension language than any infix language.
> 
I'v been told that the people who designed Javascript thought that
Lisp/Scheme was the obvious thing to do, but their boss told them
it had look like C.

What you described is exactly what you'd get from that decision,

-- hendrik



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