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Subject:Re: Java vs. Javascript From:"Matthew J. Cowley" <cowley -at- ARETHA -dot- JAX -dot- ORG> Date:Tue, 25 Mar 1997 21:05:47 -0500
You're correct. Java and Javascript are related only in name and in that
they are both conducive to web development. Java is a full-blown
programming language, and Javascript is a small, interpreted language
designed solely for web pages.
-matthew
On Tue, 25 Mar 1997, Andy Carroll wrote:
> Please correct me if I am wrong, but I thought there was a difference
> between Java and Javascript. I thought Java was the big, new,
> everybody-has-to-know-it, web-page-and-everything-else programming
> language, and that Javascript was a much smaller scale application that
> renamed itself to jump on the Java bandwagon.
>
> Yes? No? I'm sure I read about this confusion before.
>
> Andy
>
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