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by current_call 3222 days ago
No, it's not even sort of a Lisp. JavaScript is not secretly a Lisp. JavaScript is no more a Lisp than Python, Ruby, or Lua. Crockford is right that JavaScript is closer to Lisp than C, but so is Awk.

http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/07/18/javascript-isnt...