> why do people think Javascript is trying to be Lisp in particular? The reason I said lisp is because Brendan more or less always mentions he wanted to implem

> why do people think Javascript is trying to be Lisp in particular? The reason I said lisp is because Brendan more or less always mentions he wanted to implement a scheme interpreter but Netscape marketing insisted that it look like Java. As for more closely resembling Self/Lua, I'd largely agree if for nothing other than the obvious object system similarities. On the other hand, I think the idiosyncrasies of javascript like `this` and call/apply, the enforced n-arity of functions, and a lot of the 'convert it to a string' fallbacks (think lisp 1) were attempts at fitting lisp concepts onto the self-like object system. Of course, I have no basis for this so I'm probably wrong, but it makes me feel better when I have to explain them. I will note that JS is moving into limited metaprogramming with the harmony proxies proposal. I also consider destructuring (another harmony proposal) to be a more functional concept than self/lua, but I actually don't know where that started.