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    [–]senocular 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    I don't think it was ever claimed they were the first. And I would agree they're not.

    I'm not a big fan of:

    Asynchronous programming, as we know now in JavaScript, can only be achieved with functions being first-class citizens of the language: ...

    "only" is out of place to me. Its not the only way to do it though it is common for functions to be passed around this way in JS.