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Re: questions re Javascript

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Arne Vajhøj wrote in <news:comp.lang.javascript> and 
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> On 9/2/2015 7:20 AM, Stefan Ram wrote:
>>                                                          The
>>    promise of its name is thus fulfilled. And both come from
>>    the same company that also owns the trademark for both names.
> 
> No.
> 
> SUN created Java.

_Sun_
 
> NetScape created JavaScript.
> 
> NetSCape got permission from SUN to use the Java prefix.

_Netscape_

Speakers of German (and hopefully, in the future, speakers of English as 
well, as efforts at translation into English are underway) may want to read 
my 2012 thesis on the subject, and follow the references therein, to clarify 
some of their misconceptions.  It is referred to from the ECMAScript 
[Support] Matrix (see signature), which since then serves as the proof of 
concept of the thesis.

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Re: questions re Javascript Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-09-03 20:01 -0400
  Re: questions re Javascript Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-09-04 08:46 +0000
  Re: questions re Javascript Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-09-05 09:35 +0200

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