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Foil 7 Why would you use JavaScript IV?

From Overview of JavaScript I -- Basic Web Scripting Language CPS616 Technologies of the Information Age -- Spring Semester 99. by Geoffrey C. Fox (Tom Scavo)


1 Typically JavaScript is invoked from HTML and HTML text and JavaScript text are intertwined
2 If you need to make a dynamic page from C++ Perl or Java you must write the HTML from these languages
3 You can invoke applets from HTML but HTML and applet actions are not linked. In case of JavaScript HTML and JavaScript are closely linked
4 JavaScript is an example of an important concept -- the domain specific interpreter which we can expect to be of growing importance
  • Note Postscript is an interpreter for text layout; MATLAB an interpreter for Matrix arithmetic, Mathematica or Maple for Mathematics .....
5 Text ...................................................... Computer Language HTML---> JavaScript Java <----- C++

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