{"id":1446,"date":"2011-01-05T10:42:33","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T16:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bililite.nfshost.com\/blog\/?p=1446"},"modified":"2011-01-05T10:42:33","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T16:42:33","slug":"javascript-and-lisp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bililite.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/05\/javascript-and-lisp\/","title":{"rendered":"Javascript and Lisp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Douglas Crockford has said, <a href=\"http:\/\/javascript.crockford.com\/javascript.html\">javascript is Lisp is C's clothing<\/a>. That is part of what make javascript fun to program, but I never realized how literally true that statement is until I found <a href=\"http:\/\/basiscraft.com\/0800-0100-the-tcl-war.html\">this fascinating article by Thomas Lord<\/a> about GNU and Scheme, that claims:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I've read, since then, that up to around that point Brendan Eich had been working on a Scheme-based extension language for Netscape Navigator. Such was the power of the hegemony of the high level folks at Sun that the word came down on Mr. Eich: \"Get it done. And make it look like Java.\" Staying true to his sense of Self, he quickly knocked out the first implementation of Mocha, later renamed Javascript.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Explains a lot. And shows what an under-appreciated genius Brendan Eich is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Douglas Crockford has said, javascript is Lisp is C's clothing. That is part of what make javascript fun to program, but I never realized how literally true that statement is until I found this fascinating article by Thomas Lord about GNU and Scheme, that claims: I've read, since then, that up to around that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bililite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bililite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bililite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bililite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bililite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1446"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bililite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1448,"href":"https:\/\/bililite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446\/revisions\/1448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bililite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bililite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bililite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}