As I've said here before, it turned out to be a great stroke of luck for us all that Eich had recently read SICP when he was handed the job of making Livescript. Sure, the pieces that made it in may be mangled and half-digested, so much so that it took 10 years before people were able to even recognize them, but enough of the original greatness survives that amazing things are possible with JS. Imagine if he had been infatuated with, I don't know, Ada instead.

Edit: "it took 10 years before people were able to even recognize them" isn't quite right. It would be better to say that it took 10 years for people to reassemble the pieces that were left, like a vase from antiquity or one of those fragmented biblical codices.