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110 points jackdaniel | 1 comments | 21 Aug 25 12:08 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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adamddev1 ◴[21 Aug 25 13:43 UTC] No.44972696[source]▶
Ah, in an alternate world where Brendan Eich wasn't pressured by his superiors to make JS more Java-like, we could have had something like this as very normal.

I wonder how much faster that would have pushed the world into FP ideas. While sometimes I prefer the bracket/C syntax, I wonder how things would have evolved if JS was a lisp originally. Instead of things moving to TypeScript, would they be moving to something like typed Lisp or OCaml, or PureScript ?

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umanwizard ◴[21 Aug 25 15:05 UTC] No.44973702[source]▶
Is CL really particularly more “functional” than JavaScript? I don’t know CL but I know it bears some passing similarity to Emacs Lisp, which is usually written in a pretty imperative style. Sure, it has first-class closures but so does JS.
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1. taeric ◴[21 Aug 25 15:25 UTC] No.44973976[source]▶
As the sibling says, CL can be written in most any style. Which, I think it is fair to say for any general programming language? The book Exercises in Programming Style highlights that. That said, CL feels far friendlier to the various styles than other languages, to me.

Link to book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0367350203