You don't have to use closures in JS if you don't like them. Have you looked at http://selflanguage.org/ http://selflanguage.org/ that evolved from Smalltalk?

You don't have to use closures in JS if you don't like them. Have you looked at http://selflanguage.org/ http://selflanguage.org/ that evolved from Smalltalk? It is prototype based, but not curly brace syntax. Are you looking for an interpreted or compiled language? Have you looked at the Wikipedia entry? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototype-based_programming http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototype-based_programming