JavaScript
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- Not to be confused with Java, which is an unrelated programming language.
| JavaScript | |
|---|---|
| Paradigm | Multiple |
| Appeared in | 1995 |
| Designed by | Brendan Eich |
| Developer | Netscape Communications Corporation, Mozilla Foundation |
| Latest release | 1.8 |
| Influenced by | Self, C, Scheme, Perl, Python, Java |
JavaScript is derived from ECMAScript. The language is a small, lightweight, object-oriented and cross-platform. Although it is commonly associated with client-side uses in web development, it can be used in a mixture of environments, such as:
- Mozilla Platform.
- Adobe Integrated Runtime.
- Rhino, a command line interpreter by mozilla.
Versions[1]
| Version | Release date | Equivalent to |
|---|---|---|
| 1.0 | March 1996 | |
| 1.1 | August 1996 | |
| 1.2 | June 1997 | |
| 1.3 | October 1998 | ECMA-262 1st edition ECMA-262 2nd edition |
| 1.5 | November 2000 | ECMA-262 3rd edition |
| 1.6 | November 2005 | 1.5 + Array extras + Array and String generics + E4X |
| 1.7 | October 2006 | 1.6 + Pythonic generators + Iterators + let |
| 1.8 | June 2008 | 1.7 + Generator expressions + Expression closures |
| 1.9 | 1.8 + New Features | |
| 2.0 | ECMA-262 4th edition [2] |
External Resources
- JSDoc – JavaDoc style documenting for JavaScript
- JSON – Using JavaScript object in conjunction with other Languages.
- Mozilla Developer Center:
- JavaScript
- 1.5 Core Reference
- A Re-Introduction to JavaScript
- New in JavaScript: 1.7, 1.6, 1.8
- List of releases: 1.5 - 1.8
- A PHP developers guide to JavaScript
