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by 4ad 4677 days ago
Web applications from the last decade don't have anything to do with Java. Nothing. The web as it exists now is something Microsoft never understood; not even now.
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You couldn't be more wrong if you tried. Why do you think Netscape created something called Javascript (emphasis on Java)?

The answer is obvious if you lived in the late '90s. Java was a real threat to the desktop.

That doesn't mean MS was wrong. They were. But Bill Gates didn't have his head up his ass, either.

Javascript doesn't have anything to do with Java.