[MSLUG] Reboot

Mathieu Bouchard matju at artengine.ca
Thu Oct 20 12:49:10 EDT 2011


Le 2011-10-20 à 12:40:00, Marc Feeley a écrit :

> In the 90's, when Brendan Eich was at Netscape he needed to implement a 
> scripting language for the Netscape browser.  He initially implemented a 
> Scheme interpreter, but that morphed into JavaScript.  The syntaxes are 
> very different, but the fundamental features are there (dynamic typing, 
> eval, closures, symbols/immutable-strings, lists/flexible-arrays).

This description also fits Ruby, Lua, and some others. Which languages are 
on-topic ?

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