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Foil 8 Java vs. JavaScript

From Overview of Advanced JavaScript -- Web Scripting Language CPS616 Technologies of the Information Age -- Spring Semester 98. by Tom Scavo,Geoffrey C. Fox
Sun's Java is fast becoming a broad industry standard
Java is well designed and documented
Java is object-oriented with (single) inheritance
Java is class-based
JavaScript is primarily supported by Netscape and Microsoft
JavaScript has neither of these qualities
JavaScript is object-based with no class structure
JavaScript is prototype-based

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