"Java Script"
- JavaScript is a prototype-based scripting laguage that is dynamics, weakly typed and has first-class functions.
- It is a multi-paradigm language, supporting object-oriented, imperative, and function programming styles.
- JavaScript was formalized in the ECMAScript language standard and is primarily used in the form of client-side JavaScript, implemented as part of a Web browser in order to provide enhanced user interfaces and dynamic websites.
- This enables programmatic access to computational objects within a host environment.
- JavaScript's use in applications outside Web pages — for example in PDF documents, site-specific browsers, and desktop widgets — is also significant.
- Newer and faster JavaScript VMs and frameworks built upon them (notably Node.js) have also increased the popularity of JavaScript for server-side web applications.
- JavaScript uses syntax influenced by that of C.
- JavaScript copies many names and naming conventions from Java, but the two languages are otherwise unrelated and have very different semantics.
- The key design principles within JavaScript are taken from the Self and Scheme programming languages
