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by masklinn
1642 days ago
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> To be honest they should have picked a different name for JavaScript since it has nothing to do with Java. It was marketing very much in cooperation with Sun. That's why JS has a C-style syntax: Netscape simultaneously looked at embedding Java and hired Eich to embed Scheme, which then morphed into a bespoke language with Java-inspired syntax but semantics closer to Scheme's. |
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