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History of JScript

Um, ok, I'm not a Windows person, (because I'm not a masochist), but these two statements from the article simply don't sound right:

Both JScript and JScript .NET are languages whose syntax is heavily based on that of Sun Microsystems' Java language
JScript .NET syntax and lexical conventions are closely linked to Java, (which is why there is a 'J' in the name JScript; JScript was originally a scripting counterpart of J++, which was Microsoft's implementation of Java) and as such, users of Java and JavaScript will find it [JScript] easy to learn.

To the best of my knowledge, JScript was Microsoft's work-alike implementation of Mozilla's JavaScript; and "JavaScript" was simply a marketing name given to a project originally called LiveScript, and LiveScript was not based on Java, (in the strictest sense). LiveScript was syntactically based on the whole family of "brace, bracket, and semi-colon" languages like C, Java, etc. People often make an assumtion that Java and JavaScript have a direct relationship, but they do not. It is also problematic for people to create such links between Java and JavaScript, since they are actually fundamentally very different languages, with JavaScript being a Prototype-based programming language.

Any thoughts? func(talk) 18:04, 21 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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