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by nv-vn 3168 days ago
I think it would've been replaced by a competing standard. Then again, the barrier of entry for Scheme is pretty low, there really wouldn't be much stopping people from using it. My prediction would be small-scale adoption of the Scheme standard, then a gradual phase out within a few years because a Netscape competitor (or maybe even the company itself) would have replaced with something more C-like because of complaints about parentheses.