(cons cat (cons cat nil))
"Career-shatteringly bad mistake"
What I really wanted to do at the time was use Lisp, actually, but I didn’t say it. And [Alan Eustace] goes, “Well!” He says, “Well… how would you feel if there was a team out there who said they were gonna use… LISP!” He’d pulled his ace out, and he brandished it at me, and I went: “That’s what I wanted to use.” And he goes, “Oh.” And that was the end of the conversation.
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Scheme
This “JS = Scheme” meme was hugely legimitizing to a horde of programmers feeling unsure of themselves in the face of grizzly C programmers who allocated their own damn memory, probably right after building their own computer out of rocks and twigs.