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by lispm 2533 days ago
Just close your eyes and when you learn about recursion, closures, serialized data, evaluation, ... in Javascript, then just pretend you are using Lisp with a fancy notation. Even the original developer of Javascript wanted to do some Lisp/Scheme, was hired to do so and ended up with a slightly different language...

https://thenewstack.io/brendan-eich-on-creating-javascript-i...