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Lispy in the "processing lists" is easy and natural sense, but not in the more powerful "homoiconicity=code is data and data is code" sense.

When people say that, they mostly just mean that it has lexical closures, I think.

You're right about the 'homoiconicity' but there's more LISP-iness to JavaScript beyond just "processing lists" too.

For others curious about this possible connection, here's Douglas Crockford on the LISPiness of JavaScript.

You mean modern JS, no?

No, even the original language was pretty LISP-y.