Re^3: A comparison of Perl vs. JavaScript -- a reference table.

I heard him tell the story at CurryOn 2015 in Prague. IIRC, he was not only hired to write a Scheme like dialect, but he actually wrote it that way. When he was almost done like a week before the contract end, they asked him to change the syntax to be more Java-like.

map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]

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Re^4: A comparison of Perl vs. JavaScript -- a reference table. by LanX (Saint) on Dec 15, 2020 at 17:44 UTC
Did he mention Perl? I'm also asking because Perl lacks Lisp'ish macros - pretty much like JS does. OTOH is his regex syntax based on Perl 4, so he probably didn't know Perl 5 and features like private vars, anonymous subs and closures, are just a Co evolution. ( not sure if typecasting of primitive types is Lisp'ish, elisp is no good role model) Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply]
Re^5: A comparison of Perl vs. JavaScript -- a reference table. by choroba (Cardinal) on Dec 15, 2020 at 17:46 UTC
He didn't. In fact, no one at the conference did :-( But I was able to submit some patches to a Perl project during a boring presentation. `map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]\|\|0,1}[\\|\|{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^ARGV,3]`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^6: A comparison of Perl vs. JavaScript -- a reference table. by LanX (Saint) on Dec 15, 2020 at 19:42 UTC
at least there are explicit mentions in the code base: https://2ality.com/2013/02/javascript-influences.html Array and Regex mainly. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply]