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		kennethtilton on Nov 21, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Would the web be a better place with a CLR... No Common Lisp, no deal. But agreed, we cannot settle on Javascript as the forever language.

yen223 on Nov 22, 2013 [–]

"we cannot settle on Javascript as the forever language."

We cannot, but thanks to the chicken-and-egg problem, we probably will anyway.

kennethtilton on Nov 22, 2013 | [–]

Ha-ha, I may be older than you, I remember when COBOL was the forever language and VSAM the forever DB.

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