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JavaScript is not Lisp but it is more like Lisp than like C, even though syntactically it much resembles C. ES6 JS has nice syntax for calculating with lists:

JavaScript is not Lisp but it is more like Lisp than like C, even though syntactically it much resembles C. ES6 JS has nice syntax for calculating with lists: let [car, ...cdr] = [1,2,3] After the above 'car' has value 1 and 'cdr' has value [2,3].

behnamoh 2y ago
in that case Python is also a Lisp because it has: car, *cdr = [1, 2, 3, 4]
- jolux 2y ago
  https://www.norvig.com/python-lisp.html https://www.norvig.com/python-lisp.html
- pabs3 2y ago
  https://hylang.org/ https://hylang.org/
tcfhgj 2y ago
hmm Rust as well: let [car, cdr @ ..] = [1,2,3];