Re:Why Ruby is an acceptable Lisp (2005)
by michaelsbradley on Saturday September 10, 2016 @07:14PM
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BuckleScript is worth a look too:
http://bloomberg.github.io/bucklescript/
It's in the OCaml-to-JS family.
Personally, I greatly prefer ML style languages to lisp style languages. I get fed up with all the parentheses in lisps.