Language like Javascript but without closures?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6851517

by marktangotango • 13 years ago

4 6 13 years ago

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Does anyone know of such an animal?

a8i• 13 years ago

I'll ask the obvious question: why?

Closures are the natural result of allowing the dynamic creation of lambdas, which is pretty central to JS as a language. A language "like Javascript but without closures" would no longer be "like Javascript".

marktangotango2• 13 years ago

Good point. More specifically, a dynamically typed, prototype based object oriented language with C style curly brace syntax.

qbrass• 13 years ago

http://nekovm.org/

CyberFonic• 13 years ago

You don't have to use closures in JS if you don't like them.

Have you looked at http://selflanguage.org/ that evolved from Smalltalk? It is prototype based, but not curly brace syntax.

Are you looking for an interpreted or compiled language?

Have you looked at the Wikipedia entry? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototype-based_programming

jroesch• 13 years ago

JavaScript goes from a mediocre language to nearly unusable without closures.

marktangotango2• 13 years ago

Yes, I should have specified javascript strict mode, with a namespace and or module system :) Hmm, getting quiet the requirements here.

Language like Javascript but without closures?

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