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01-01-04, 09:54 PM

Java and Javascript are two totally different things. Netscape formed an alliance with Sun Microsystems back in 1995. Java, a new object-oriented language and Netscape plans to support not only embedding Java applets, small programs that can live on a web page, but wishes the ability to script the applets as well. To accomplish this goal they came up with LiveScript. This was Javascript's first incarnation. It lasted all of about 6 months. In what some have called a pretty dumb move, Netscape decided to capitalize on the name recognition which Sun's new Java language was receiving. Thus LiveScript was renamed Javascript.

Of course, Javascript is neither the same as Java, nor vice-versa, however the confusion inevitable with naming the two different languages so closely has not really hampered their acceptance in the community at large.

01-01-04, 09:54 PM	#13 (permalink)
cageyjames Guest Posts: n/a	Java and Javascript are two totally different things. Netscape formed an alliance with Sun Microsystems back in 1995. Java, a new object-oriented language and Netscape plans to support not only embedding Java applets, small programs that can live on a web page, but wishes the ability to script the applets as well. To accomplish this goal they came up with LiveScript. This was Javascript's first incarnation. It lasted all of about 6 months. In what some have called a pretty dumb move, Netscape decided to capitalize on the name recognition which Sun's new Java language was receiving. Thus LiveScript was renamed Javascript. Of course, Javascript is neither the same as Java, nor vice-versa, however the confusion inevitable with naming the two different languages so closely has not really hampered their acceptance in the community at large. Last edited by cageyjames; 01-04-04 at 10:34 PM.