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phpnode on March 26, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages

the concept of promises as used in JavaScript comes from E

evgen on March 26, 2020 | [–]

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

QuesnayJr on March 26, 2020 | [–]

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

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