Comment by Bootwizard
7 years ago
I'm a software engineer that mostly works on the front end of things, but from school and various jobs I have experience in: C, C++, Python, C#, Java.
Mostly object oriented (distributed systems and game dev), and some embedded development.
JavaScript is, probably somewhat surprisingly, a pretty LISP-y language, tho without the parentheses.
Lispy in the "processing lists" is easy and natural sense, but not in the more powerful "homoiconicity=code is data and data is code" sense.
When people say that, they mostly just mean that it has lexical closures, I think.
You're right about the 'homoiconicity' but there's more LISP-iness to JavaScript beyond just "processing lists" too.
For others curious about this possible connection, here's Douglas Crockford on the LISPiness of JavaScript.
The Little JavaScripter https://www.crockford.com/little.html
You mean modern JS, no?
No, even the original language was pretty LISP-y.