Steve Yegge on Server Side JavaScript
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From the page
Saved with the link. Notes from 2007 to 2016 are mostly the page's own words, so this is probably an excerpt.
Steve does his thing, and goes in glorious directions, such as how we end up with a scriptable back end, how the JVM matters as a host for these things, SchemeScript, how defineProperty gets around the for .. in issues, Who likes to write their own giant deterministic finite automata to do string matching? Heh.