Category:JavaScript

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Language
JavaScript
This programming language may be used to instruct a computer to perform a task.
Garbage collected: Yes
Type strength: Weak
Type expression: Implicit
Type checking: Dynamic
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Listed below are all of the tasks on Rosetta Code which have been solved using JavaScript.

JavaScript is the name of Netscape Communications Corporation's implementation of the ECMAScript standard, a scripting language based on the concept of prototype-based programming. 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 only distantly related to the Java programming language, the main similarity being their common debt to the C syntax. Semantically, JavaScript syntax has far more in common with 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 Foundation.

JavaScript has been born again, now that AJAX has come up. The meaning of this is simply that AJAX has shown that JavaScript is really still useful in a lot of domains and that (most) web pages that use it can be given a whole new life.

There's a nice table on Wikipedia that shows which version of JavaScript is release in which version of a browser: wp:JavaScript#Versions

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Pages in category "JavaScript"

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