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mahmud on Dec 12, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bill Clementson's Blog: JavaScript and Lisp

Except languages where you can't pass functions as arguments or return them as results.

swannodette on Dec 12, 2009 | [–]

Horror! I didn't know such atrocities existed shudder ;)

andrewcooke on Dec 12, 2009 | [–]

you're right. i should have said "first class functions" (which narrows the field somewhat).

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