Back in 1998, when I was only 15, I called into a Q&A style tech show on ZDTV to ask one question that was bothering me: What was the difference between Java and JavaScript. My call was never taken, and my question didn’t come up on the show, but I eventually figured it out on my own.
Many web developers over the years has bemoaned Netscape’s decision to name their new programming language JavaScript, which was apparently an attempt to bank off of the recent success of the Java programming language. It has since led to much confusion, but I had thought that anybody who was even remotely technically savvy would know the difference by now. Apparently I was wrong. Continue reading “In this day and age, how is Java still confused with JavaScript?”