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Historically JavaScript was called LiveScript and developed by Netscape with some of the same goals as Java but focussed on a "smaller world" -- manipulation of text and options connected with Netscape Clients
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TEXT ............................................. COMPUTER Language
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HTML --> JavaScript Java <--- C++
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Now we can use it under some circumstances as an alternative to Java where the "rapid prototyping" of a fully scripted language is helpful
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We expect somebody to develop a fully interpreted Java -- equivalently to extend JavaScript to support more built-in objects (e.g. networking, images)
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JavaScript is "either" active text (HTML) or a focused language!
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JavaScript can be thought of as Java with the AWT (Abstract Windowing Toolkit) replaced by Netscape Client
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JavaScript is a domain specific Interpreter for "Web Document Domain"
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e.g. Postscript is a domain specific Interpreter for text layout and MATLAB is an interpreter for matrix manipulation, Mathematica is domain specific for mathematics ......
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