While it's true that Brendan Eich's development of JavaScript was influenced by Scheme, Netscape insisted that the language had to look like Java. It's not jus

While it's true that Brendan Eich's development of JavaScript was influenced by Scheme, Netscape insisted that the language had to look like Java. It's not just the syntax that's different, but the semantics as well. The hallmark of Lisp is code-as-data, data-as-code; JavaScript certainly can't claim that. I like JavaScript (for the most part), but it's wrong to call it "Lisp in C clothing".