JavaScript Announced 30 Years Ago
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Netscape and Sun announced JavaScript in December 1995 as an open, cross-platform scripting language to complement Java for creating interactive web applications. Twenty-eight industry leaders endorsed the new language, which was designed for HTML authors and developers to script object behavior on clients and servers without extensive programming knowledge.
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