Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!border1.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!border2.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed7.news.xs4all.nl!nzpost1.xs4all.net!not-for-mail Subject: Re: questions re Javascript To: Stefan Ram References: <2b531f48-fff9-4c73-a116-22a3f110e919@googlegroups.com> <020920150828500988%timstreater@greenbee.net> Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript,comp.lang.java From: Luuk Message-ID: <55EADCBF.9070005@invalid.lan> Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2015 14:14:55 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 23 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:980:9089:1:68a4:5ceb:5751:47cc X-Trace: 1441455289 news.xs4all.nl 23867 [2001:980:9089:1:68a4:5ceb:5751:47cc]:54534 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.javascript:28642 On 02-09-15 13:13, Stefan Ram wrote: > Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript,comp.lang.java > > Tim Streater writes: >> Javascript has nothing to do with Java except for having a similar >> sounding name. > > There are so many similiarities between the two languages, > that I can't name them all. For example, in both Java and > JavaScript, > They (Java & Javascript) might be similar, but they have noting to do with each other. Javascript is a language based on a standard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript) Java is owned by Oracle (so, not based on an independant standard, besides the standard that Oracle creates for it.....)