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JavaScript is a trademark owned by Oracle
Gah. It’s such a weird naming choice. I still have peers confusing Java and Javascript...
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It's sort of elegant, nicely rounds up the whole collection of weird choices in JavaScript's design.
Pacabel
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They aren't "weird" design choices. Most of them are just plain bad design choices.
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The more I use JavaScript (jquery), the more I fall in love with it!
chrisdevereux
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I heard that if you try to run Java in a Javascript VM, it is silently coerced into almost the right JS code.
chc
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Most Java programs won't even parse.
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