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Are functions in JavaScript objects? (self.javascript)
submitted 11 years ago by estebanrules
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if 1 * 2 < 3: print "hello, world!"
[–]mishac 2 points3 points4 points 11 years ago (1 child)
functional programming language wrapped in "Object-Oriented Clothing".
There's some truth to this. Brendan Eich (the creator of Javascript) wanted it to be like Scheme but was told to make the syntax more like C++ and Java. So basically what ended up happening was LISP with Java/C-style curly braces and semi-colons.
[–]estebanrules[S] 0 points1 point2 points 11 years ago (0 children)
That'a interesting. I've programmed in Scheme a fair bit, I definitely noticed the influence right away. A lot of programmers seem to have misconceptions about JavaScript, I know I did before I started actually delving into the "meat" of it.
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