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by jhayward 2534 days ago
It would probably have been FutureSplash Animator, which became Macromedia Flash and then Adobe Flash. For a long time Flash was the de-facto web scripting language.
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thaumasiotes 2534 days ago
Flash is scripted with a language eerily similar to JavaScript -- so similar that I assumed it was derived directly from JavaScript. In the hypothetical world where JavaScript was lisp... wouldn't Flash use that?
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jhayward 2534 days ago
I think you're probably referring to Actionscript, which came much later in Flash's evolution and was indeed very much similar to javascript.
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