> JavaScript was not based on Java its similarities are only perceived > because so many languages look the same. Sharing keywords does not make it a > direct relative, if it did then just about every language could be said to > be a barstardization of C. Even if one does not know java they can pretty > much read in a basic form c#.
Yes I am aware of the different type system, but according to my copy of "JavaScript The Definitive Guide", NetScape hired Brendan Eich to create a language to make their newly added Java support more accessible to non-Java programmers. In other words, JavaScript would not exist had it not been for Sun's push for client-side logic into browsers... who knows, we might be writing vbscript (another bastard language based on VBA) instead. You can find concrete evidence that there's indeed talk about a bastard language, i.e. JavaScript inherits Java's rather odd semantics of Double.MIN_VALUE (the smallest *positive* number) which is unlike most other languages I know (yielding the smallest value). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
