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He embedded Scheme in JavaScript instead but nobody noticed. As Lou Reed once said, “JavaScript is Lisp in drag”.

• lisper 6y ago
  Except it isn't. JS has lexical closures, but that's not the only feature that makes Scheme what it is. JS got one thing right and about a dozen other things very badly wrong. https://blog.kevinchisholm.com/javascript/javascript-wat/ https://blog.kevinchisholm.com/javascript/javascript-wat/
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  • inopinatus 6y ago
    Just to be clear, the Lou Reed quote was fake.