Javascript

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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  JavaScript
       
           (Formerly "LiveScript") {Netscape}'s simple,
          cross-{platform}, {World-Wide Web} {scripting language}, only
          very vaguely related to {Java} (which is a {Sun} trademark).
          JavaScript is intimately tied to the {World-Wide Web}, and


          currently runs in only three environments - as a {server}-side
          {scripting} language, as an embedded language in
          {server-parsed HTML}, and as an embedded language run in web
          {browsers} where it is the most important part of {DHTML}.
       
          JavaScript has a simplified {C}-like {syntax} and is tightly
          integrated with the browser {Document Object Model}.  It is
          useful for implementing enhanced {forms}, simple web
          {database} {front-ends}, and navigation enhancements.
       
          JavaScript originated from {Netscape} and, for a time, only
          their products supported it.  {Microsoft} now supports a
          work-alike called JScript.  The resulting inconsistencies make
          it difficult to write JavaScript that behaves the same in all
          browsers.  This could be attributed to the slow progress of
          JavaScript through the standards bodies.
       
          JavaScript runs "100x" slower than {C}, as it is purely
          interpreted ({Java} runs "10x" slower than C code).
          {Netscape} and allies say JavaScript is an "open standard" in
          an effort to keep {Microsoft} from monopolising web software
          as they have desktop software.  {Netscape} and {Sun} have
          co-operated to enable {Java} and JavaScript to exchange
          messages and data.
       
          See also {VBScript}.
       
          {Usenet} newsgroup: {news:comp.lang.javascript}.
       
          Mailing List:  ("subscribe javascript"
          in body).
       
          (2003-04-28)