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Re:Ask HN: Why is everyone here so obsessed with Lisp? by aeorgnoieang on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @01:46PM (#20698002)
JavaScript is, probably somewhat surprisingly, a pretty LISP-y language, tho without the parentheses.
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Re:Ask HN: Why is everyone here so obsessed with Lisp? by debug-desperado on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @06:08PM (#20700525)
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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Re:Ask HN: Why is everyone here so obsessed with Lisp? by kbp on Thursday August 15, 2019 @05:39PM (#20709956)
When people say that, they mostly just mean that it has lexical closures, I think.
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Re:Ask HN: Why is everyone here so obsessed with Lisp? by aeorgnoieang on Thursday August 15, 2019 @03:42PM (#20708904)
You're right about the 'homoiconicity' but there's more LISP-iness to JavaScript beyond just "processing lists" too.
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Re:Ask HN: Why is everyone here so obsessed with Lisp? by lioeters on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @04:32PM (#20699644)
For others curious about this possible connection, here's Douglas Crockford on the LISPiness of JavaScript.

The Little JavaScripter https://www.crockford.com/little.html

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Re:Ask HN: Why is everyone here so obsessed with Lisp? by btxxa on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @02:08PM (#20698274)
You mean modern JS, no?
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Re:Ask HN: Why is everyone here so obsessed with Lisp? by aeorgnoieang on Thursday August 15, 2019 @03:26PM (#20708750)
No, even the original language was pretty LISP-y.
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