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Re:Kit Programming Language by lopatin on Thursday September 20, 2018 @10:06AM (#18032528)
> Stuff like lambdas weren’t born in some hipster language, they came from JavaScript.

They did not come from JS. JS took them from Scheme. Scheme took them from ... lambda calculus? Anyways, not knocking on JS, but they did not invent lambdas by any stretch of the imagination. I do agree with the rest of your comment btw.

Re:Kit Programming Language by eksemplar on Saturday September 22, 2018 @02:20AM (#18044775)
I didn’t mean to imply that JS invented it, I meant to imply JS made them popular to the masses.