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Try this interview with the creator of JavaScript.
Brendan Eich[^]
A few pull quotes:
Quote: What Netscape really wanted was a language to complement Java that would appeal to beginning programmers, just like Microsoft’s Visual Basic.
Quote: I was under marketing orders to make it look like Java but not make it too big for its britches. It’s just this sort of silly little brother language, right? The sidekick to Java
Clearly, and contrary to a lot of the statements I have read from other developers, at least at the beginning, JavaScript is to Java as VBScript is to Visual Basic.
modified 29-Aug-18 13:53pm.
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VBScript to VB is far more accurate than VBA to VB which isn't accurate at all as VBA is essentially VB just embedded in an app.
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Thank you. My post is corrected.
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Having worked a little bit in Java and more so in JavaScript, I see absolutely no resemblance between Java and JavaScript. However, both resemble a pile of turds. 
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Marc Clifton wrote: both resemble a pile of turds.
When you go to the dog park, do you try to compile doggie leftovers?
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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No. Interpret them.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Marc Clifton wrote: However, both resemble a pile of turds.
What have piles of turds done to you to deserve such an insult? 
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Marc Clifton wrote: However, both resemble a pile of turds.
As do all interpreters.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I thought I was the only one who feels that way about both! But then, I also happen to think that programming languages reached an apex when Borland released Object Turbo Pascal, the only human-readable OOP language ever developed. C and C++ eventually reversed that positive trend and set maintainability back by a few decades... 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger Wright wrote: an apex when Borland released Object Turbo Pascal
That was definitely a game changer. $99 made a real language compiler affordable to the masses, even though Pascal was intended to be a teaching language.
Roger Wright wrote: C and C++ eventually reversed that positive trend and set maintainability back by a few decades...
Yes and no, IMO. C++ brought some good ideas, but it also started what I consider a bad trend -- creating a morass of objects and derived objects to model the world of the application at a given snapshot in time, which meant we had to change the program every time the concept of that model changed. We entered into the world of basically unmaintainable applications. But that's a longer discussion. 
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its a PR article Brendan Eich is on a roll promoting his crappy coin initial coin offering stuff
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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MSBassSinger wrote: JavaScript is to Java as VBScript is to Visual Basic
Which one of those 4 can't run in a browser?...which begs another question...does anyone ever use anything besides javascript for client-side browser code? After all theses years, I just noticed that C# is available as a script type, but I've never seen it used.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Are bats just goth birds?
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Just winging it this AM?
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Are they from Gotham? Or Birdingham?
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Probably originated in Battle, East Sussex[^]
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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My mother was born there 
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Maybe, but when they dance, they're a big hit at the balls.
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??? whatever takes your fancy...
for mine I'd really not want a bat to make a big hit at my balls ... ouch!
This internet thing is amazing! Letting people use it: worst idea ever!
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I was thinking more baseball/cricket, but you know what E.B. White said, "Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better, but the frog dies"
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No.
• Bats are webbed structured flying animals while birds are feathered winged animals.
• Bats are mammals, whereas birds lay eggs.
• Bats have teeth while birds have beaks
Bats vs Birds[^]
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I bet you're real fun at parties, right? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Well... Platypuses are mammals, but that doesn't stop them from laying eggs, or even having beaks, so, the joke is on you.
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You mean that they're actually real animals? 
BTW: The plural of platypus is Platypodes[^] (I looked it up because I thought it would be platypi!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Visi- or Ostro-goth?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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