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I linked to something on Erights.org a few days ago http://www.erights.org/

I think E was more influential than its distribution would suggest.




As cool as E was, it was almost entirely based on core ideas lifted from Joule and KeyKOS. I can't really see any influence beyond a "wouldn't it be great if language X had feature Y like you find in E".


I was also thinking of the community, as they moved out into other languages and carried some ideas with them that they maybe got exposed to in the E community.


Are there active languages influenced by E? I came across that erights site years ago, and I always meant to learn more about it.


the concept of promises as used in JavaScript comes from E


Promises for async results has been around for decades and E got the idea from Joule.


Aren't they originally from Scheme? I remember seeing a Scheme implementation years ago.




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