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JavaScript
is a scripting language most often used for client-side
web development. "JavaScript" is an implementation of
the ECMAScript standard.
JavaScript is a dynamic, weakly typed, prototype-based
language with first-class functions. JavaScript was
influenced by many languages and was designed to have a
similar look to Java, but be easier for non-programmers
to work with. The language is best known for its use in
websites (as client-side JavaScript), but is also used
to enable scripting access to objects embedded in other
applications.
Despite the name, JavaScript is unrelated to the Java
programming language; though both have a common debt to
C syntax. The language was renamed from LiveScript in a
co-marketing deal between Netscape and Sun in exchange
for Netscape bundling Sun's Java runtime with their
browser, which was dominant at the time. JavaScript
semantics is much more similar to the Self programming
language.
"JavaScript" is a registered trademark of Sun
Microsystems, Inc. It was used under license for
technology invented and implemented by Netscape
Communications and current entities such as the Mozilla
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