What Is JavaScript?
If you talk to a stuffy academic type, you might hear him describe JavaScript as a dynamically typed, prototype-based language with first-class functions. If you are scratching your head about what that means, don't worry, you're not the only one. A more pedestrian explanation of what JavaScript is would be that it is a language designed to allow developers of web applications to add dynamic, and interactive, elements to web pages. Although this does gloss over quite a large swath of the capabilities of JavaScript, it does describe the role the language plays.
One of the really nice features of JavaScript is that it allows developers to choose a style of programming that makes sense to them. Because of the way JavaScript is ...
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