Language like Javascript but without closures?

Does anyone know of such an animal?

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a8i 12y 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".

marktangotango 12y ago ↗

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

qbrass 12y ago ↗

http://nekovm.org/

CyberFonic 12y 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 12y ago ↗

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

marktangotango 12y ago ↗

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