ECMAScript programming language

The ECMAScript programming language, formerly known as JavaScript, is an object-oriented [scripting language]? specified by the ECMA-262 standard. [Netscape Communications]? originally developed the language under the name "LiveScript" but then renamed it to "JavaScript" and gave it a syntax closer to that of the Java programming language developed by Sun Microsystems at roughly the same time Netscape was including support for Java technology in its Netscape Navigator browser.

ECMAScript is an object-oriented scripting language that connects through interfaces called Document Object Models (DOMs) to applications, especially to the server side ([web servers]?) and the client side ([Internet browsers]?) of internet applications. Many web sites use client-side ECMAScript technology to create powerful dynamic web applications.

Its primary data structure is an [associative array]? similar to hashes in the Perl programming language. (To do: more information on the language)

External link:

• The ECMAScript Language Specification is available from http://www.ecma.ch/ecma1/STAND/ECMA-262.HTM