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		warfangle on March 9, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pixie: A sweet Clojure-ish language Well, technically, JSON is just a Plain Old Javascript Object, with restrictions (no expressions, quoted keys).

kyllo on March 9, 2015 [–]

Sort of, at least in the sense that you can eval JSON from JS code rather than having to parse it yourself. This is one of many language concepts that JavaScript cribbed from the Lisp/Scheme family of functional languages.

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