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To: SeekAndFind

Is Java the same as JavaScript? I use Opera v11.64 and now have JS turned-off. Thanks for the article, SAF.


7 posted on 06/03/2012 7:59:29 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (All liberals & most demoncraps think that life is just a sponge bath, with a happy ending.)
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To: carriage_hill
Is Java the same as JavaScript?

It is not, that is the result of Netscape's unfortunate naming back in the day for ECMAScript (Javascript).

8 posted on 06/03/2012 8:02:03 AM PDT by Dan Nunn (Support the NRA!)
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To: carriage_hill
Is Java the same as JavaScript?

No.

30 posted on 06/03/2012 10:18:23 AM PDT by Lazamataz (People who resort to Godwin's Law are just like Hitler.)
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Is Java the same as JavaScript?

Not even remotely. Except for their C-ish syntax, the two languages have nothing in common.

JavaScript was originally supposed to be called LiveScript, but the marketdroids at Netscape (remember them?) changed its name just before its introduction in an attempt to ride the coattails of Java, which, at the time, appeared to be the Next Big Thing in browserdom.

34 posted on 06/03/2012 11:36:37 AM PDT by cynwoody
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