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  • (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Monday April 04 2022, @02:38AM (3 children)

    by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 04 2022, @02:38AM (#1234664) Homepage Journal

    Isn't there an implementation of Javascript in Scheme?

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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday April 04 2022, @01:58PM (2 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 04 2022, @01:58PM (#1234755) Journal

    I don't know, but I wouldn't be surprised.

    There is at least one scheme (or partial) implementation [github.com] in JavaScript.

    So at least it can be alternating turtles all the way down.

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    • (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Monday April 04 2022, @06:27PM (1 child)

      by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 04 2022, @06:27PM (#1234821) Homepage Journal

      I've been told that the Javascript spec specifies proper tail-recursion, but that common implementations in browsers don't implement this properly.
      So there is at least some awkwardness using Scheme in Javascript.

      • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday April 04 2022, @07:26PM

        by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 04 2022, @07:26PM (#1234833) Journal

        This brings me back to the Java programming language where Java programmers know that memory is infinite and can never be exhausted.

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