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Having read Let over Lambda, I would say I find Javascript to be (a superset of?) a lispy language. If functional values with lexical binding are supported, then you get all the power of The Little Lisper.

Perhaps the macro facilities are also convenient but that is not the part that makes Lisp mathematical, it's the higher order programming.

And it needn't even be something fancy, just being able to have a data table of tests and have the test functions generated and executed from the table is the power demonstrated.




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