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		TweedHeads on Aug 23, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: D. Crockford on JSON: "An influence was Rebol, a s... "An influence was Rebol, a shame it’s not more popular" Then the title is misleading. Rebol as an influence to what? We should ask that question to Brendan to see what influenced HIM to design javascript as he did.

BigZaphod on Aug 23, 2009 [–]

Javascript is extremely heavily influenced by Self: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_(programming_language)

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