Monday, July 7, 2008

What Is JavaScript?

JavaScript is a scripting language most commonly used for client-side Web development. It was the original dialect of the ECMAScript standard. It is a dynamic, weakly typed, prototype based language with first-class functions. JavaScript was influenced by many languages and was designed to look like Java, but easier for non-programmers to work

Although best known for its use in Web pages (as a client-side JavaScript), JavaScript is also used to the Scripting access to objects embedded in other applications.

JavaScript, despite the name, is basically nothing to do with the Java programming language, although both have the common C syntax, JavaScript and Java copies of many names and naming convention. The language was originally called "Live script", but was renamed in a co-marketing deal between Netscape and Sun in exchange for Netscape bundling Sun's Java runtime environment with its then dominant browser. The main design principles within JavaScript are a legacy of the Self programming language.

"JavaScript" is a trademark of Sun Microsystems. It was used under license for the technology invented and implemented by Netscape Communications and current units such as the Mozilla Foundation.

Source: en.wikipedia.org

For STMIK ROSMA Students, you can download the JavaScript module here

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