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But MacCarthy's original LISP 1 and LISP 1.5 do not have real lambdas. The lambda feature parametrizes a piece of code as a function literal, but doesn't capture anything.

What they have is code parsed to a data structure, which is then susceptible to manipulation by the program before being executed. JS has some dumb textual eval, like the Bourne shell.

They also have the concept of a symbol.

And only one value that is false.



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