Re: The first lambda language to go mainstream ?

Uhm, "passing anonymous functions around" was something LISP already did, didn't it? As it's only the second high level programming language to be created (1958; after Fortran (1957), but before COBOL (1959)), it would be hard to say it never was mainstream.

But then, is there anything worthwhile that LISP doesn't do already?^†

^†That's a rhetorical question.

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Re^2: The first lambda language to go mainstream ? by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Aug 11, 2010 at 16:27 UTC
But then, is there anything worthwhile that LISP doesn't do already?† Um. oO( "format readably" )^† ^† That's a rhetorical answer :)	[reply]
Re^2: The first lambda language to go mainstream ? by LanX (Saint) on Aug 11, 2010 at 19:27 UTC
Yes the claim is LISP and Perl aren't mainstream while JS is. I was surprised to see LISP on position 16 in the TIOBE index, but that should be related to the actual hype around Clojure. Personally I only learned and used LISP to script emacs (but never repented, since I learned a lot about the concepts Larry had in mind when designing Perl) Well and to read and understand Clojure books ;) UPDATE: Actually Perl for sure influenced JS in many aspects, but it seem that for many people Perl is something like the strange boy in the neighborhood everybody met, but nobody cares to know. Cheers Rolf	[reply]