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Comment by debug-desperado

7 years ago

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.

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kbp  7 years ago

When people say that, they mostly just mean that it has lexical closures, I think.

aeorgnoieang  7 years ago

You're right about the 'homoiconicity' but there's more LISP-iness to JavaScript beyond just "processing lists" too.

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