Re: Java Overload? Are all of these really necessary?

Actually Java and JavaScript have nothing to do with each other. JavaScript was originally called LiveScript. Here, a quote from wikipedia's article on this topic

"The language was originally named "LiveScript" but was renamed in a co-marketing deal between Netscape and Sun, in exchange for Netscape bundling Sun's Java runtime with their then-dominant browser."

Cheers
Vern
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From: "Joe D" <nike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for the feedback guys. My only real exposure to java has been
javascript, and as such I guess I was thinking of it as an interpreted
language, and therefore probably backwards compatible. But reading your
responses I guess I "knew" java was a compiled language too, which would
understandably have problems if the compile-time environment was not
available...


----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete Helgren"
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion"
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 6:58 AM
Subject: Re: Java Overload? Are all of these really necessary?

There are some programs that are compiled for Java 1.4
that won't run in Java 5 or 6 and vice a versa, so hang on to these
things, you may need them.

Pete

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