Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eternal Hope Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: questions re Javascript Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2015 20:40:25 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2015 19:38:19 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="2ab430ef8c6b5deb5816c858366218e1"; logging-data="9349"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+V2vP6A7lvaESENZjW51NQArk4nluHji0=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:4XVLdWIQwKD5PC4zri3WT2fNoos= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:32541 On 01/09/2015 23:26, rdelaney2001@gmail.com wrote: > I'm trying to get a handle in what Javascript is, isn't, > what it does.... > > Is it a language, or a set of library routines? If > the latter, how are they accessed? > > Is it used, or useful, for anything besides hovering > the cursor over an image on a Web page? > > What is its relation to Java, as a plug-in? Are they > independent? Does Javascript execute/reside 'inside' > Java, so to speak? > > What are the limitations of the language, in terms of > hardware, memory access, security, etc.? Are you still reading this OP? Are you any clearer in your mind? Read what Martin Gregorie wrote upthread, it's nicely succinct although for completeness he possibly could have mentioned that technically Java is also an interpreted language although optimizations like Just In Time compilers tend to blur the distinction somewhat. Ignore the other, (hijacked subject) thread, it's just mental masturbation by people who obviously have nothing better to do. :-) -- Laughing Spam Fritter