Scheme in the browser: A Hoot of a tale
I'm personally not a fan, but still am hesitating to point out that Scheme was, in fact, chosen as the language for styling and transforming SGML (DSSSL, still available as OpenJade), and I believe also Brendan Eich's first choice, presumably because of the DSSSL precedent. But then supposedly his bosses told him it has to be more like Java, at least in name.<p>I'm not a big believer in syntax (and think LISPy language will always remain niche, which is part of its appeal), but one thing I'd imagine is that LISP/Scheme could've helped to prevent the syntax excess that is CSS, simply because there were already plausible styling examples for eg. classic stateful recto/verso print formatting, and LISP's homoiconicity would've make CSS syntax look kindof gross.