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Of course, it's not Haskell... I'm very aware that Javascript was inspired by Scheme. The lexical scoping for example, is obviously "functional" (indeed, whatev

Of course, it's not Haskell... I'm very aware that Javascript was inspired by Scheme. The lexical scoping for example, is obviously "functional" (indeed, whatever that means). Now they are introducing ways to more easily work with lists. Only thing missing is tail call optimization!

coldtea 13y ago
>I'm very aware that Javascript was inspired by Scheme. The lexical scoping for example, is obviously "functional" (indeed, whatever that means). No it wasn't. That's an urban legend. Eich WANTED to make a Scheme for the browser -- he didn't get a permission to do it, and made Javascript instead, which is actually inspired from other languages like Self. Nothing functional about Javascript's horribly broken scoping either... http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/07/18/javascript-isnt-scheme/ http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/07/18/javascript-isnt...