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I'm a software engineer that mostly works on the front end of things, but from school and various jobs I have experience in: C, C++, Python, C#, Java. Mostly o

I'm a software engineer that mostly works on the front end of things, but from school and various jobs I have experience in: C, C++, Python, C#, Java. Mostly object oriented (distributed systems and game dev), and some embedded development.

aeorgnoieang 7y ago
JavaScript is, probably somewhat surprisingly, a pretty LISP-y language, tho without the parentheses.
- btxxa 7y ago
  You mean modern JS, no?
  - aeorgnoieang 7y ago
    No, even the original language was pretty LISP-y.
- lioeters 7y ago
  For others curious about this possible connection, here's Douglas Crockford on the LISPiness of JavaScript. The Little JavaScripter https://www.crockford.com/little.html https://www.crockford.com/little.html
- debug-desperado 7y ago
  Lispy in the "processing lists" is easy and natural sense, but not in the more powerful "homoiconicity=code is data and data is code" sense.
  - aeorgnoieang 7y ago
    You're right about the 'homoiconicity' but there's more LISP-iness to JavaScript beyond just "processing lists" too.
  - kbp 7y ago
    When people say that, they mostly just mean that it has lexical closures, I think.