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“As a final way of kindling your jealousy, DSSSL could treat inherited values as variables, and do math on them…”

As per the article, this would have been a lot to implement back then, but sigh, what a wonderful world that wold have been.




I keep wondering how I can Man-in-the-High-Castle my way back to the timeline where Scheme replaces HTML, Javascript, and CSS. Also where Al Gore wins the 2000 election.


Brendan Eich originally wanted Netscape's scripting language to be a Scheme dialect, but suits forced him to use Java/C-like syntax instead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich#Netscape_and_Java...




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