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First class functions and lexical scoping have been actively used in programming languages since 4 decades prior to the invention of JS.
by hellofunk 11y ago
First class functions and lexical scoping have been actively used in programming languages since 4 decades prior to the invention of JS.
- woah 11y agoMysteriously they gained popularity at the same time that JS did.
- hellofunk 11y agoThat is certainly not true, and therefore, not mysterious. In fact this website, ycombinator, is the result of a nice pay day that Paul Graham enjoyed for selling web service he built in the 1990s using functional programming techniques... and it was not JS.