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To elaborate, JavaScript doesn’t support macros, which allow arbitrarily powerful semantic abstraction. And JavaScript does not have a regular syntax, so even if it did have macros, you would have to special-case each type of syntax (curly braces, statements, post-++ operators within lines) and handle them specifically. First-class functions and closures do not a Lisp make.


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