By knowing Lisp/Scheme I found it easier to understand the core concepts in JavaScript. Brendan Eich set out to implement Scheme in the Netscape browser. Due t

By knowing Lisp/Scheme I found it easier to understand the core concepts in JavaScript. Brendan Eich set out to implement Scheme in the Netscape browser. Due to marketing and business management pressure he ended up creating a hybrid of Scheme and Self (a successor to Smalltalk) using a C-like syntax. Unfortunately, along the way JS lost the homomorphism feature of Lisp. That is partly the reason we have so many transpilers to JS.