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by wvenable 6137 days ago
If you watch his talk he doesn't claim he invented JSON; he goes out of his way to say he discovered it -- because it was already there. And he even says that he wasn't the first to discover it either -- as many other people figured it out around the same time.
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"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.

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