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Which language that is not a lisp or lisp dialect is closest to lisp? (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by AdPast9882@alien.top to c/lisp

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[–] bitwize@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

I would say Dylan, which is so close to Lisp that some people consider it a Lisp, despite not having Lisp-like syntax. The modern language that fits that description is Julia.

JavaScript isn't Scheme -- far from it. But you can use a lot of Schemer techniques when programming in it. There are libraries like Ramda that help support programming in functional style. Ever since ECMAScript embraced internable symbols, I've been facetiously using the nickname "ES2049" to refer to Lisp when among JavaScript programmers; as it seems that JavaScript is slowly asymptotically approaching Lisp.