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In 1974, Daniel P. Friedman published a little book called The Little LISPer. It was only 68 pages, but it did a remarkable thing...

JavaScript has much in common with Scheme. It is a dynamic language. It has a flexible datatype (arrays) that can easily simulate s-expressions. And most importantly, functions are lambdas.

Because of this deep similarity, all of the functions in The Little Schemer can be written in JavaScript.

Show your Javascripting friends the light...

By Ehud Lamm at 2005-02-12 19:45 | Fun | other blogs | 15879 reads

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Some context

Barry Margolin has been arguing that LISPers ought to be more friendly to javascript than they have been on comp.lang.lisp for some time. His argument is: yes, javascript has issues, yes you can't count on it being correctly implemented, but it is widely available, more so than CL, and accords with some LISP-like principles.

By Charles A Stewart at Sun, 2005-02-13 14:42 | login or register to post comments

Show your Javascripting friends the light...

Or your Lisping friends ;-)

By Christian Langreiter at Sun, 2005-02-13 16:22 | login or register to post comments

Cool, he has a Scheme intrepreter in Javascript.

The source and an eval form

By John Carter at Sun, 2005-02-13 21:24 | login or register to post comments

No Macros?

Ah, but no macros?

By Alex Peake at Mon, 2005-02-14 00:06 | login or register to post comments

A more complete Scheme interp

A more complete Scheme interpreter in Javascript is here:

http://thetan.ru/scheme.html

It includes a 'limited syntax-rules transformer'. IE only though.

By doublec at Mon, 2005-02-14 01:36 | login or register to post comments