Re:Why We Chose Typescript
by dom0 on Friday June 30, 2017 @08:19PM
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Lisp has nothing to do (in many ways) with the late 80s and 90s wave of dynamic languages.
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JavaScript was definitely partly inspired by Scheme.
likewise ruby by lisp
I’d say Ruby’s closest sibling is Smalltalk personally.
People say this mainly because of the brace-enclosed blocks of code being functions. However, that is really just a syntactic sugar for lambda (and can even have explicit arguments: (lambda (x y) ...) <--> {|x,y| ... }.