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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 i
by eksemplar 8y ago
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.
- pjmlp 8y agoEveryone that never put their foot into a CS degree. Even Clipper had support for closures.
- toyg 8y agoPython 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.
- eksemplar 8y agoJS 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?