JavaScript
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JavaScript for Not Yet Techies

The latest version is JavaScript 1.5. This adheres to ECMA-262, revision 3 created by the ECMA Technical Committee TC39.
This upgrade is mostly technical. The next update will be JavaScript 2.0.

JavaScript has firmly established itself as the premier scripting
language of the Internet. It has beaten off Microsoft's attempt to
unseat -- anybody remember or actually still use JScript or VBScript?
(Now in the .NET Framework and VB.NET.

ECMA estimates that 70% of all websites use JavaScript.

Microsoft basically supports JavaScript but not in an open way and
this adds to JavaScript development time.

Recently it has emerged as a popular macro language.

One big problem it has, however, is that the company that started
it -- Netscape -- is virtually dead, certainly as the software
developer that it used to be before losing the browser war with
Internet Explorer and then being bought up by AOL. Therefore,
no active organization has a vested interest in continuing
JavaScript.

A weakness it has is in how it handles XML, an increasingly important
technology for storing and transmitting data.

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