5.5. Mozilla's Scriptable Interfaces
Like a hand in a glove, a JavaScript interpreter and the host software in which it is embedded go together. This topic describes the host software's contribution to that partnership.
As for C, the JavaScript language has no input or output operations. All input and output must be done via host objects. At least a trivial piece of host software is required to provide those host objects.
If basic input/output (I/O) features are provided, then a script can draw in other scripts from elsewhere. In theory, such scripts can be used to create very large programs. This is similar to Perl's module environment, but it is not common practice in JavaScript. In JavaScript, the expectation is that most of a program's functionality ...
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