XML makes Java the "acceptable Lisp"

Those of you who are familiar with more traditional functional languages, such as Lisp or Scheme, will recognize that functions in JScript are fundamentally the Lambda Calculus in fancy dress. (The august Waldemar Horwat — who was at one time the lead Javascript developer at AOL-Time-Warner-Netscape — once told me that he considered Javascript to be just another syntax for Common Lisp. I’m pretty sure he was being serious; Waldemar’s a hard core language guy and a heck of a square dancer to boot.)