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Lisp has nothing to do (in many ways) with the late 80s and 90s wave of dynamic languages.
by dom0 9y ago
Lisp has nothing to do (in many ways) with the late 80s and 90s wave of dynamic languages.
- spot 9y agoJavaScript was definitely partly inspired by Scheme.
- zem 9y agolikewise ruby by lisp
- Gaelan 9y agoI’d say Ruby’s closest sibling is Smalltalk personally.
- kazinator 9y agoPeople 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| ... }.
- zem 9y agothere's the "everything is objects and messages sent to them" bit too, which is definitely from smalltalk. ruby took the good bits from several languages.