Intro
Java and JavaScript share many similarities, but are unique in many more ways. The two languages share similar goals and history, but both serve vastly different purposes. While both are object-oriented languages, Java is an interpreted language while JavaScript is, as its name implies, a scripting language, and not a true programming language. Java is meant mostly to be a multi-tiered language, while JavaScript was written to be a client-side language. While the two languages may look very similar at first glance, a line of code identically written in both languages can produce wildly different results. This is because Java is a strongly-typed language while JavaScript is a loosely-typed language. Both exist to make Web pages more interactive for users, but how they go about doing this and how they work is wildly different.
Java History
Java is an object-oriented program language created by Sun Microsystems in May of 1995. The language was originally part of the "Green......
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