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> 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 fr
by lopatin 8y ago
> 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.
- eksemplar 8y agoI didn’t mean to imply that JS invented it, I meant to imply JS made them popular to the masses.