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On Sat, 16 May 1998 01:42:20 +0200, martijn@inlv.demon.nl 
(Martijn Dekker) wrongly set the followup line to a 
nonexistant newsgroup after he wrote:
>For one it's by Netscape, and for two it's not a version of Java. It
>doesn't even have anything to do with Java.
<EEEK!>Well, I'm wrong about the creator (I was confusing
JavaScript with J++), right about the correlation to Java.  
From http://wfn-shop.princeton.edu/foldoc/cgi-script/?JavaScript

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 (Formerly LiveScript) Netscape's simple, cross-platform, World-Wide
Web scripting language, only very vaguely related to Java. JavaScript
is intimately tied to the World-Wide Web, and currently runs in only
three environments - as a server-side scripting language, as an
embedded language in server-parsed HTML, and as an embedded language
run in browsers. 

JavaScript may end up being more popular and entrenched than Java, due
to the current (May 1997) prevalence of its primary platform (see
below), and its ease of learning. It has a simplified C-like syntax.
Its functionality is currently limited, being aimed primarily at
enhanced forms, simple web database front-ends and navigation
enhancements. 

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