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Re:Kit Programming Language by eksemplar on Thursday September 20, 2018 @12:09PM (#18033499)
Before JavaScript embraces lambdas, everyone thought they were a bad idea. You could say something similar about jit.

I know JS gets a lot of hate on hn, but if you look at the history of a lot of modern pl paradigms, many of them got traction after years of ridicule because JavaScript brought them to the masses.

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Re:Kit Programming Language by toyg on Thursday September 20, 2018 @04:46PM (#18035320)
Python had lambda in 1994. JS didn’t even exist then.

Face it - people use JS because the browser happened, not because it’s original in any meaningful way.

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Re:Kit Programming Language by eksemplar on Saturday September 22, 2018 @02:17AM (#18044771)
JS didn’t invent lambdas, it made them popular. Or is it just a coincidence that every major language that didn’t have them, adopted them after they got real use in JS?
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Re:Kit Programming Language by pjmlp on Thursday September 20, 2018 @02:40PM (#18034582)
Everyone that never put their foot into a CS degree.

Even Clipper had support for closures.

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