The JavaScript Language
JavaScript was designed to resemble Java, which, in turn, looks a lot like C and C++. The difference is that Java was built as a general-purpose object language; JavaScript, on the other hand, is intended to provide a quicker and simpler language for enhancing Web pages and servers. This section describes the building blocks of JavaScript and teaches you how to combine them into legal JavaScript programs.
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You can find a more complete language reference for JavaScript in Appendix A, "JavaScript Language Reference." You can also find more information at the developer Web sites of Netscape at http://developer.netscape.com and Microsoft at http://msdn.microsoft.com . Finally, the ECMAScript standard can be found as ECMA-262 ...
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